Heroes (poem) Quizzes

Heroes (poem) Quiz

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

Octaves

Couplets

Sestets
2 What was Hercules's final labor?
Journey to the underworld

Kill the Nemean lion

Catch and return Cerberus

Fight Apollo
3 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Hercules

Virgil

Aeneas

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

Ulysses' return home

The destruction of Troy

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

Dante

Homer

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

Free verse

Iambic trimeter

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

Animal cruelty

Heroism

War
8 What does the Latin quote "hoc opus, hic labor est" mean?
"Nothing comes from nothing"

"Deeds, not words"

"Therein lies the difficulty"

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

Strength

Valor

Determination
10 How many labors was Hercules assigned?
Two

Five

Ten

Twelve
11 When was the poem published?
1965

1950

1975

1960
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 mocking Aeneas

By saying he has never read his work

By saying his poetry is bad

By saying he is long dead
14 Who is Aeneas trying to see in the underworld?
Hercules

Virgil

Achilles

His father
15 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Reverent

Solemn

Thoughtful but harsh

Respectful but critical
16 What is the meaning of the line "death also / can still propose the old labors" in the poem?
Hercules died after completing his tasks

Mortality can push heroes into action

Mortality forces people into dull labor

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

Cerberus

Charon

Dido
18 What is the genre of the poem?
Heroic poetry

Ekphrasis

Pastoral poetry

Sea shanty
19 What does Aeneas's father have a vision of?
The destruction of Troy

The city of Rome

Aeneas' death

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 lost

Because it shows him being vulnerable and mortal

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

Cerberus

The king of Mycanae

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

Aeneas

Sibyl

Hercules
23 Why does Creeley say he is the speaker of the poem and then mention Virgil?
To place his own work in the same category as Virgil's

To mock himself

To align himself with a certain poetic tradition

To challenge Virgil's authority over hero narratives
24 What collection was the poem first published in?
For Love

5 Numbers

If You

The Island
25 Which of the following poets was a noted contemporary of Creeley's?
Dante

Charles Olson

Emily Dickinson

Virgil

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