The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?

Australian

flowery

dramatic

bony
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?

religious prediction

a winged seed

contrast of light and dark

a small songbird
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?

biological terminology

videoconference troubleshooting

sports jargon

religious allusion
6 How is the farmer described?

American

certain

stoic

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

father

child

brother

mother
8 What is on the dresser?

a letter

the gun

locks of hair

plant buds
9 What adjective is most closely paired with "the border"?

willful

desperate

frozen

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

chickadee

sycamore

sunflower

maple
11 What things are "not forgetting"?

god and our father

the acquaintance and the gun

skin and god

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

sorrowful

longing

desperate

weary
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 human

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

worries

ease

sorrow

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

her pet

the chickadee

her child

the vaccine
16 How many sentences is this poem?

none

5

1

22
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

2

1

22

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

poetic refrain

modernist poem

chiaroscuro

ars poetica
19 During what world event was this poem written?

The COVID pandemic

World War II

The Iraq War

The Spanish flu pandemic
20 What book contains this poem?

The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying

Bright Dead Things
21 Which of the following literary techniques does NOT feature prominently in this poem?

alliteration

repetition

simile

enjambment
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?

as the only poem

as the last poem

as the first poem

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

Horace

Wallace Stevens

Marianne Moore

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

Poet Laureate

biologist

podcasting

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

touch

poetry

failure

revision

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