Little Red Cap Quizzes

Little Red Cap Quiz

By Eleanor Stern · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed April 18, 2022

1 What does the speaker use to kill the wolf?

A flamethrower

Poison

An axe

A knife
2 In this poem, which two issues are linked most explicitly?

Childhood and gullibility

Wildness and spirituality

Obedience and safety

Sexual and artistic growth
3 What is the speaker's passion?

Nature

Fashion

Poetry

Romance
4 What do the "houses" of the poem's first line appear to represent?

Wealth

Intellect

Childhood

Restriction
5 To what does Duffy compare the industrial sites at the poem's beginning?

Roosters

Carpets

Mistresses

Snowplows
6 What do the grandmother's bones symbolize?

Familial conflict

Truth

Historical inequality

Death
7 For how long does the speaker stay with the wolf?

Three days

Ten years

Two weeks

One night
8 How is the theme of maturity explored in this work?

Through the speaker's acceptance of her own old age

Through the wolf and speaker's growing ability to communicate

Through the teen speaker's artistic growth

Through the speaker's witnessing old age and death
9 In which poetry collection was this work first published?

The Gift

Mean Time

The World's Wife

Collected Poems
10 Which of the following contains internal rhyme?

He had! What big eyes he had! What teeth!

I took an axe to a salmon

Away from home, to a dark tangled thorny place

Season after season, same rhyme, same reason.
11 Which type of stanzas are used in this poem?

Sextets

A mix of tercets and quatrains

Octaves

Septets
12 Which folktale writers/compilers appear to have most directly inspired this work?

Madame D'Aulnoy

Hans Christian Andersen

The Brothers Grimm

Charles Perrault
13 Which metaphorical comparison is used to describe the speaker's torn clothes?

Breadcrumbs

Chess pieces

Lost teeth

Murder clues
14 What is the poem's climax?

The wolf's attack on the speaker

The meeting of the speaker and the wolf

The revival of the grandmother

The speaker's realization that she does not need the wolf
15 What is the meaning of the word "allotments"?

Plots of land

Grades in school

Job descriptions

Allowances
16 Which item symbolizes the speaker's lost innocence?

Her shoes

The willow

The salmon

The wolf's bookshelves
17 Which word is an instance of onomatopoeia?

Shreds

Bones

Owls

Drawl
18 What is the meaning of the word "waif"?

Marriage contract

Sickly child

Mythical spirit

Widow
19 Which of the following phrases contains assonance?

reading his verse out loud

I crept to the back

murder clues. I lost both shoes

lead me deep into the woods
20 Which line contains alliterative P's?

to a willow to see how it wept

reading his verse out loud/in his wolfy drawl

the houses petered out / Into playing fields

Then I slid from between his heavy matted paws
21 Which popular story is this poem based on?

The Three Little Pigs

Little Red Riding Hood

The Odyssey

Star Wars
22 The line "what little girl doesn’t dearly love a wolf?" is an instance of what?

Rhetorical question

Simile

Anaphora

Metonymy
23 Which of the following words do NOT describe the poem's tone?

Thoughtful

Dramatic

Terse

Intense
24 How does Duffy depict the speaker's love of literature?

By showing the way she saves the wolf's books when he dies

By metaphorically linking books to flames

By personifying language

By including quotations from her favorite books
25 What meter does the poem use?

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Trochaic pentameter

It is written in free verse

Essays for Little Red Cap

Little Red Cap essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy.

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