The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?
flowery

bony

Australian

dramatic
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?
a small songbird

religious prediction

contrast of light and dark

a winged seed
3 What does "samara" mean?
a small songbird

a winged seed

contrast of light and dark

religious prediction
4 What song does Limón allude to?
Paradise

Yankee Doodle

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

The Star-Spangled Banner
5 Which of the following is NOT a type of language used in this poem?
sports jargon

videoconference troubleshooting

biological terminology

religious allusion
6 How is the farmer described?
faithful

certain

stoic

American
7 Which family role is NOT mentioned in this poem?
father

brother

child

mother
8 What is on the dresser?
plant buds

the gun

locks of hair

a letter
9 What adjective is most closely paired with "the border"?
willful

brutal

desperate

frozen
10 Which of the following species is NOT named in this poem?
sycamore

maple

sunflower

chickadee
11 What things are "not forgetting"?
the acquaintance and the gun

skin and god

our father and faith

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

sorrowful

longing

desperate
13 What does the speaker say before "I am alone and I am desperate"?
I am here

I cannot see you

I am human

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

worries

animals

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

her pet

the vaccine

her child
16 How many sentences is this poem?
none

1

22

5
17 How many stanzas is this poem?
1

22

none

2
18 What is the term for a poem about poetry?
poetic refrain

ars poetica

chiaroscuro

modernist poem
19 During what world event was this poem written?
The Iraq War

The Spanish flu pandemic

World War II

The COVID pandemic
20 What book contains this poem?
Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

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

alliteration

enjambment

repetition
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?
as the last poem

as the only poem

as the first poem

as an endnote
23 Who wrote "I too, dislike it"?
Marianne Moore

Robert Pinsky

Wallace Stevens

Horace
24 Which of the following roles has Ada Limón NOT held?
marketing

biologist

podcasting

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

failure

poetry

touch

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