Heroes (poem) Quizzes

Heroes (poem) Quiz

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

Quatrains

Octaves

Sestets
2 What was Hercules's final labor?
Catch and return Cerberus

Journey to the underworld

Fight Apollo

Kill the Nemean lion
3 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Robert Creeley

Aeneas

Hercules

Virgil
4 What scene from the Aeneid does Creeley depict?
Aeneas's journey to the Underworld

The destruction of Troy

Ulysses' return home

Achilles's battle with Hector
5 Who wrote the Aeneid?
Homer

Shakespeare

Virgil

Dante
6 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Free verse

Iambic tetrameter
7 Which of the following is a main theme of the poem?
War

Heroism

Animal cruelty

History
8 What does the Latin quote "hoc opus, hic labor est" mean?
"Therein lies the difficulty"

"Deeds, not words"

"Nothing comes from nothing"

"That is the task, that is the labor"
9 What quality does Creeley prize in hero narratives?
Humanness

Valor

Determination

Strength
10 How many labors was Hercules assigned?
Five

Twelve

Two

Ten
11 When was the poem published?
1950

1960

1965

1975
12 What literary movement was Robert Creeley associated with?
The New York School

The Imagists

The Black Mountain poets

The Beat Generation
13 How does Creeley subtly criticize Virgil?
By saying he has never read his work

By saying he is long dead

By saying his poetry is bad

By mocking Aeneas
14 Who is Aeneas trying to see in the underworld?
Virgil

His father

Achilles

Hercules
15 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Solemn

Thoughtful but harsh

Respectful but critical

Reverent
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

Hercules died after completing his tasks

Mortality forces people into dull labor

Poets should write about death more often
17 Who is Aeneas's guide into the underworld?
Cerberus

Sibyl

Dido

Charon
18 What is the genre of the poem?
Sea shanty

Ekphrasis

Pastoral poetry

Heroic poetry
19 What does Aeneas's father have a vision of?
The city of Rome

Hercules' capture of Cerberus

Aeneas' death

The destruction of Troy
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 lost

Because it shows him being afraid

Because it shows him being vulnerable and mortal

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

The Nimean lion

The king of Mycanae

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

Sibyl

Aeneas

Ulysses
23 Why does Creeley say he is the speaker of the poem and then mention Virgil?
To mock himself

To challenge Virgil's authority over hero narratives

To place his own work in the same category as Virgil's

To align himself with a certain poetic tradition
24 What collection was the poem first published in?
The Island

If You

5 Numbers

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

Charles Olson

Dante

Emily Dickinson

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