Instructions on Not Giving Up Quizzes

Instructions on Not Giving Up Quiz

1 Which of the following trees is named in the poem?
Cherry

Pear

Maple

Oak
2 What does "confetti of aftermath" refer to?
Flowers fallen onto the ground

Leftover party decorations from New Year's

The speaker's joyous feelings

Autumn leaves littering the sidewalk
3 When the new leaf is unfurling, to what human body part is it compared?
Eyes

Palm

Fist

Scars
4 What color are the crabapple blossoms?
Jade

White

Fuchsia

Slate
5 How is the "idea of continuous living" described?
Shocking

Strange

Obscene

Empty
6 Which of the following is NOT a word used to describe the growth of new leaves?
Plodding

Slick

Determined

Patient
7 What "really gets to" the speaker?
The world's baubles and trinkets

The greening of the trees

The neighbor's garden

The first rain
8 How many lines does this poem have?
16

12

10

14
9 Who or what seems to speak in the closing lines of the poem?
The neighbor

The tree

The sky

The reader
10 Which of the following descriptors does NOT appear in the poem?
Cotton candy

Taffy

Plodding

Frenzied
11 What poetic form does this poem draw on?
Sestina

Villanelle

Sonnet

Triolet
12 Which of the following honors has Ada Limón NOT held?
Librarian of Congress

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

Poet Laureate of the U.S.

Guggenheim Fellow
13 What is the name of the book containing "Instructions on Not Giving Up"?
Sharks in the Rivers

Bright Dead Things

The Carrying

The Hurting Kind
14 Where was "Instructions on Not Giving Up" first published?
Poetry Magazine

The New Yorker

Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets

Social media
15 What is the term for breaking a line of poetry in the middle of a phrase or sentence?
Volta

Enjambment

Assonance

Iambic pentameter
16 What word/phrase does Limón use multiple times to set up suspense early in this poem?
It is not

Unlike

More than

Beyond
17 What defiant declaration gets repeated in the last three lines?
Bring it on

I'll take it

I am ready

Come what may
18 During what era was Ada Limón writing?
1800s

1910s

2000s

1950s
19 Which of the following literary devices is NOT used prominently within the poem?
Alliteration

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor
20 To which of the human senses does the poem appeal most?
Tongue / taste images

Hands / touch images

Ears / auditory images

Eyes / visual images
21 Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement of the poem's message?
Nature has powerful lessons on how not to give up

Celebrate now, because life is short

You can recover from hurt and loss

Choose to keep living and accept what life has in store
22 What is the central contrast in the poem's image system?
Flowers versus leaves

Silence versus sound

Grass versus pavement

Sky versus earth
23 What other role has Ada Limón held, aside from poet?
Podcast host

Politician

Musician

YouTuber
24 What meter describes the poem's final line?
Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic hexameter
25 Quick! Without looking elsewhere, what's the name of the poem?
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