Heroes (poem) Quizzes

Heroes (poem) Quiz

1 What type of stanzas is the poem made up of?

Octaves

Sestets

Quatrains

Couplets
2 What was Hercules's final labor?

Kill the Nemean lion

Fight Apollo

Journey to the underworld

Catch and return Cerberus
3 Who is the speaker of the poem?

Robert Creeley

Hercules

Virgil

Aeneas
4 What scene from the Aeneid does Creeley depict?

Achilles's battle with Hector

The destruction of Troy

Ulysses' return home

Aeneas's journey to the Underworld
5 Who wrote the Aeneid?

Homer

Virgil

Dante

Shakespeare
6 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter
7 Which of the following is a main theme of the poem?

Heroism

History

War

Animal cruelty
8 What does the Latin quote "hoc opus, hic labor est" mean?

"That is the task, that is the labor"

"Nothing comes from nothing"

"Deeds, not words"

"Therein lies the difficulty"
9 What quality does Creeley prize in hero narratives?

Determination

Humanness

Valor

Strength
10 How many labors was Hercules assigned?

Ten

Two

Five

Twelve
11 When was the poem published?

1965

1950

1960

1975
12 What literary movement was Robert Creeley associated with?

The Black Mountain poets

The New York School

The Beat Generation

The Imagists
13 How does Creeley subtly criticize Virgil?

By saying he is long dead

By saying his poetry is bad

By mocking Aeneas

By saying he has never read his work
14 Who is Aeneas trying to see in the underworld?

His father

Achilles

Virgil

Hercules
15 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?

Respectful but critical

Reverent

Solemn

Thoughtful but harsh
16 What is the meaning of the line "death also / can still propose the old labors" in the poem?

Mortality can push heroes into action

Poets should write about death more often

Mortality forces people into dull labor

Hercules died after completing his tasks
17 Who is Aeneas's guide into the underworld?

Charon

Sibyl

Dido

Cerberus
18 What is the genre of the poem?

Sea shanty

Heroic poetry

Pastoral poetry

Ekphrasis
19 What does Aeneas's father have a vision of?

The city of Rome

Aeneas' death

The destruction of Troy

Hercules' capture of Cerberus
20 Why does Creeley single out Aeneas's trip to the underworld as the moment of "humanness" in the Aeneid?

Because it shows him being afraid

Because it shows him being vulnerable and mortal

Because it shows him being lost

Because it shows him missing his father
21 Who is the guardian of the underworld?

The king of Mycanae

Cerberus

The Nimean lion

Apollo
22 Which of the following figures is NOT referenced in the poem?

Ulysses

Sibyl

Hercules

Aeneas
23 Why does Creeley say he is the speaker of the poem and then mention Virgil?

To challenge Virgil's authority over hero narratives

To mock himself

To align himself with a certain poetic tradition

To place his own work in the same category as Virgil's
24 What collection was the poem first published in?

5 Numbers

If You

The Island

For Love
25 Which of the following poets was a noted contemporary of Creeley's?

Dante

Virgil

Emily Dickinson

Charles Olson

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