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

a winged seed

contrast of light and dark
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

Yankee Doodle

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

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

sports jargon

videoconference troubleshooting

religious allusion

biological terminology
6 How is the farmer described?

faithful

American

stoic

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

child

brother

mother

father
8 What is on the dresser?

the gun

plant buds

locks of hair

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

desperate

frozen

brutal

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

sycamore

chickadee

sunflower

maple
11 What things are "not forgetting"?

skin and god

our father and faith

god and our father

the acquaintance and the gun
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 asking you to touch me

I cannot see you

I am here

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

worries

ease

animals

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

her pet

her child

the vaccine

the chickadee
16 How many sentences is this poem?

1

5

none

22
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

none

1

22

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

chiaroscuro

modernist poem

ars poetica

poetic refrain
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?

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying
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 last poem

as an endnote

as the first poem

as the only poem
23 Who wrote "I too, dislike it"?

Robert Pinsky

Marianne Moore

Wallace Stevens

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

biologist

podcasting

marketing

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

revision

touch

poetry

failure

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