Instructions on Not Giving Up Quizzes

Instructions on Not Giving Up Quiz

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

Pear

Maple

Oak

Cherry
2 What does "confetti of aftermath" refer to?

Leftover party decorations from New Year's

The speaker's joyous feelings

Flowers fallen onto the ground

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

Eyes

Scars

Palm

Fist
4 What color are the crabapple blossoms?

Slate

Fuchsia

White

Jade
5 How is the "idea of continuous living" described?

Strange

Shocking

Empty

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

Determined

Plodding

Slick

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

10

12

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

The sky

The neighbor

The reader

The tree
10 Which of the following descriptors does NOT appear in the poem?

Taffy

Cotton candy

Frenzied

Plodding
11 What poetic form does this poem draw on?

Sonnet

Sestina

Villanelle

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

Poet Laureate of the U.S.

Librarian of Congress

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

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

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying
14 Where was "Instructions on Not Giving Up" first published?

Poetry Magazine

The New Yorker

Social media

Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets
15 What is the term for breaking a line of poetry in the middle of a phrase or sentence?

Iambic pentameter

Assonance

Enjambment

Volta
16 What word/phrase does Limón use multiple times to set up suspense early in this poem?

More than

It is not

Beyond

Unlike
17 What defiant declaration gets repeated in the last three lines?

Come what may

I'll take it

I am ready

Bring it on
18 During what era was Ada Limón writing?

1800s

2000s

1910s

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

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Metaphor
20 To which of the human senses does the poem appeal most?

Eyes / visual images

Hands / touch images

Tongue / taste images

Ears / auditory images
21 Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement of the poem's message?

Choose to keep living and accept what life has in store

Celebrate now, because life is short

Nature has powerful lessons on how not to give up

You can recover from hurt and loss
22 What is the central contrast in the poem's image system?

Flowers versus leaves

Grass versus pavement

Silence versus sound

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

Podcast host

YouTuber

Politician

Musician
24 What meter describes the poem's final line?

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter
25 Quick! Without looking elsewhere, what's the name of the poem?

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