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 winged seed

contrast of light and dark

a small songbird

religious prediction
3 What does "samara" mean?

a small songbird

a winged seed

religious prediction

contrast of light and dark
4 What song does Limón allude to?

The Star-Spangled Banner

Paradise

Yankee Doodle

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)
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

faithful

certain

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

brother

father

mother

child
8 What is on the dresser?

locks of hair

a letter

the gun

plant buds
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?

maple

chickadee

sunflower

sycamore
11 What things are "not forgetting"?

our father and faith

skin and god

god and our father

the acquaintance and the gun
12 Which emotion word gets repeated twice within three lines?

longing

sorrowful

desperate

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

I cannot see you

I am human

I am asking you to touch me

I am here
14 "Enough of the air and its ______"

animals

sorrow

worries

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

her pet

the vaccine

her child

the chickadee
16 How many sentences is this poem?

22

1

5

none
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

2

22

1

none
18 What is the term for a poem about poetry?

ars poetica

chiaroscuro

modernist poem

poetic refrain
19 During what world event was this poem written?

The COVID pandemic

The Spanish flu pandemic

The Iraq War

World War II
20 What book contains this poem?

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying

Bright Dead Things

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

repetition

alliteration

enjambment

simile
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?

as the only poem

as the first poem

as the last poem

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

Marianne Moore

Robert Pinsky

Horace

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

podcasting

Poet Laureate

marketing

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

revision

touch

failure

poetry

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