Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?

1970

1959

1967

1966
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?

The Book of Genesis

Psalms

Song of Songs

Epistle of James
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?

Children of Mary

Angels

The original humans

Snakes
4 Who is Eve addressing?

Adam

All her children

Her daughters: modern women

Abel and Cain
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"

who started it

who began it

who endured

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

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Informal, ironic, logical

Relatable, wrathful, reflective
7 What is the meter?

Ballad

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse

Free verse
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?

Eve

The children

The couple

Adam
9 Define "draughty."

Cold and uncomfortable

Warm and moist

A kind of laughter

Misbehaving
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.

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

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

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

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.

Faults of character are the only real thing.

What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?

Adam is faultless and worthy of following.

Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

Faults of character are not real.

The same as Adam's.
14 Whose logic does Eve use to negate Adam in the final stanza?

Both hers and his

None

Her own

His own
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?

Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.

Eve will always follow her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

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

Adam and Eve

The other humans

Divine figures

Adam and Eve's children
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?

Then you cook.

I repent my ways,

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

You can see how his pride had been hurt.
18 Which are examples of modern jargon that express the values in certain modern societies?

God and the Other

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,

Yes, he got to the centre where nothing at all can be demonstrated.
19 Who is "the Other"?

Eve

God

Most likely Satan

Adam
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?

Eve's beauty

Eve's own faults of character

A propensity to speak up

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

Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

A destructive nature

A life of their own

Their own logic
22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?

True and transparent.

Proud because Eve is their mother.

Ironic because their story ended in murder.

None
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?

Faults of character have their own logic

It was not I who began it.

He has turned himself into God,

for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?

"It was not I..."

"In the process..."

"You see, he..."

"But you are my daughters..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?

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

You see, he had always been jealous.

You see, he was always an egotist.

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

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