The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?
flowery

dramatic

Australian

bony
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?
religious prediction

a small songbird

a winged seed

contrast of light and dark
3 What does "samara" mean?
a winged seed

religious prediction

contrast of light and dark

a small songbird
4 What song does Limón allude to?
Yankee Doodle

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

The Star-Spangled Banner

Paradise
5 Which of the following is NOT a type of language used in this poem?
religious allusion

videoconference troubleshooting

biological terminology

sports jargon
6 How is the farmer described?
stoic

American

certain

faithful
7 Which family role is NOT mentioned in this poem?
brother

father

child

mother
8 What is on the dresser?
locks of hair

a letter

plant buds

the gun
9 What adjective is most closely paired with "the border"?
frozen

willful

brutal

desperate
10 Which of the following species is NOT named in this poem?
sunflower

sycamore

maple

chickadee
11 What things are "not forgetting"?
our father and faith

skin and god

the acquaintance and the gun

god and our father
12 Which emotion word gets repeated twice within three lines?
weary

longing

desperate

sorrowful
13 What does the speaker say before "I am alone and I am desperate"?
I cannot see you

I am human

I am here

I am asking you to touch me
14 "Enough of the air and its ______"
sorrow

worries

ease

animals
15 What is the poet most likely referring to by "the animal saving me"
the chickadee

the vaccine

her child

her pet
16 How many sentences is this poem?
5

none

1

22
17 How many stanzas is this poem?
1

2

none

22
18 What is the term for a poem about poetry?
poetic refrain

ars poetica

modernist poem

chiaroscuro
19 During what world event was this poem written?
World War II

The Spanish flu pandemic

The Iraq War

The COVID pandemic
20 What book contains this poem?
Bright Dead Things

Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind

The Carrying
21 Which of the following literary techniques does NOT feature prominently in this poem?
alliteration

repetition

enjambment

simile
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?
as the only poem

as the first poem

as an endnote

as the last poem
23 Who wrote "I too, dislike it"?
Robert Pinsky

Marianne Moore

Horace

Wallace Stevens
24 Which of the following roles has Ada Limón NOT held?
biologist

marketing

podcasting

Poet Laureate
25 Ada Limón said in an interview with Vanity Fair that "all writing is basically ______"
touch

failure

revision

poetry

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