Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

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1 When was this poem written?

1959

1967

1966

1970
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?

The Book of Genesis

Song of Songs

Epistle of James

Psalms
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?

Angels

Children of Mary

The original humans

Snakes
4 Who is Eve addressing?

All her children

Adam

Abel and Cain

Her daughters: modern women
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"

who began it

who started it

who endured

who should be blamed
6 Which best describes Eve's tone in the poem?

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Informal, ironic, logical

Relatable, wrathful, reflective
7 What is the meter?

Iambic pentameter

Ballad

Blank verse

Free verse
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?

Adam

Eve

The couple

The children
9 Define "draughty."

A kind of laughter

Misbehaving

Warm and moist

Cold and uncomfortable
10 What does the phrase "not unhappy" suggest?

Adam and Eve both struggled to adapt to life on earth

This double negative suggests hesitation and confusion, perhaps suggesting that Eve feels the opposite

A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy

Adam struggled to make their earthly life livable. The best he could do was feel "not unhappy"
11 Why might the poem use little to no metaphor or simile?

Wright dislikes using metaphors.

Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.

The language remains straightforward and gives an edge of modernity and irony.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.

Faults of character are the only real thing.

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?

Faults of character are not real.

Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

The same as Adam's.

Adam is faultless and worthy of following.
14 Whose logic does Eve use to negate Adam in the final stanza?

Both hers and his

Her own

His own

None
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?

Eve will always follow her husband.

Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

Eve feels passionately about her husband.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?

Adam and Eve

Divine figures

Adam and Eve's children

The other humans
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

Then you cook.

You can see how his pride had been hurt.

I repent my ways,
18 Which are examples of modern jargon that express the values in certain modern societies?

Yes, he got to the centre where nothing at all can be demonstrated.

God and the Other

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education
19 Who is "the Other"?

Adam

Eve

God

Most likely Satan
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?

Eve's own faults of character

A propensity to speak up

Eve's beauty

Eve's rebellious nature
21 What does Eve say that faults of character have?

A destructive nature

Their own logic

Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

A life of their own
22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?

True and transparent.

Ironic because their story ended in murder.

None

Proud because Eve is their mother.
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?

Faults of character have their own logic

He has turned himself into God,

for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over

It was not I who began it.
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?

"It was not I..."

"But you are my daughters..."

"You see, he..."

"In the process..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?

That he realized his hubris and set to work fixing the problems on earth.

He has turned himself into God, who is faultless, and doesn’t exist.

You see, he had always been jealous.

You see, he was always an egotist.

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