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?

Autumn leaves littering the sidewalk

Leftover party decorations from New Year's

Flowers fallen onto the ground

The speaker's joyous feelings
3 When the new leaf is unfurling, to what human body part is it compared?

Eyes

Palm

Scars

Fist
4 What color are the crabapple blossoms?

Slate

Jade

White

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

Obscene

Shocking

Strange

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

Patient

Slick

Plodding

Determined
7 What "really gets to" the speaker?

The first rain

The world's baubles and trinkets

The neighbor's garden

The greening of the trees
8 How many lines does this poem have?

16

10

14

12
9 Who or what seems to speak in the closing lines of the poem?

The reader

The sky

The tree

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

Taffy

Cotton candy

Plodding

Frenzied
11 What poetic form does this poem draw on?

Villanelle

Triolet

Sonnet

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

Guggenheim Fellow

Librarian of Congress

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

Poet Laureate of the U.S.
13 What is the name of the book containing "Instructions on Not Giving Up"?

The Carrying

Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers
14 Where was "Instructions on Not Giving Up" first published?

Poetry Magazine

Social media

Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets

The New Yorker
15 What is the term for breaking a line of poetry in the middle of a phrase or sentence?

Assonance

Volta

Iambic pentameter

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

Beyond

It is not

Unlike

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

I am ready

Bring it on

I'll take it

Come what may
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

Personification

Metaphor

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

Hands / touch images

Tongue / taste images

Eyes / visual images

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

Celebrate now, because life is short

Nature has powerful lessons on how not to give up

Choose to keep living and accept what life has in store

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

Grass versus pavement

Sky versus earth

Flowers versus leaves

Silence versus sound
23 What other role has Ada Limón held, aside from poet?

Musician

Podcast host

Politician

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

Iambic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

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

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