The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

By Rebecca Bedell · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed December 12, 2022

1 What does "osseous" mean?

dramatic

Australian

bony

flowery
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?

religious prediction

a small songbird

a winged seed

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

a small songbird

contrast of light and dark

religious prediction

a winged seed
4 What song does Limón allude to?

Yankee Doodle

Paradise

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?

religious allusion

biological terminology

sports jargon

videoconference troubleshooting
6 How is the farmer described?

American

faithful

certain

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

brother

father

mother

child
8 What is on the dresser?

locks of hair

the gun

a letter

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

desperate

willful

brutal

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

maple

chickadee

sycamore

sunflower
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?

desperate

weary

sorrowful

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

I am here

I cannot see you

I am asking you to touch me

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

ease

animals

sorrow

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

the vaccine

her child

her pet

the chickadee
16 How many sentences is this poem?

1

22

none

5
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

22

1

2

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

chiaroscuro

poetic refrain

ars poetica

modernist poem
19 During what world event was this poem written?

The Spanish flu pandemic

World War II

The COVID pandemic

The Iraq War
20 What book contains this poem?

Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind

The Carrying

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

enjambment

repetition

simile

alliteration
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?

as the first poem

as the only poem

as the last poem

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

Wallace Stevens

Marianne Moore

Robert Pinsky

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

failure

poetry

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