The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?

flowery

bony

dramatic

Australian
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

contrast of light and dark

religious prediction

a winged seed
4 What song does Limón allude to?

Paradise

The Star-Spangled Banner

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

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

sports jargon

biological terminology

videoconference troubleshooting

religious allusion
6 How is the farmer described?

American

certain

stoic

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

child

father

brother

mother
8 What is on the dresser?

a letter

plant buds

locks of hair

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

desperate

brutal

willful

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

sycamore

maple

chickadee

sunflower
11 What things are "not forgetting"?

skin and god

the acquaintance and the gun

god and our father

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

desperate

sorrowful

weary

longing
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 ______"

animals

ease

sorrow

worries
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?

5

1

none

22
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

2

none

22

1
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?

World War II

The Iraq War

The Spanish flu pandemic

The COVID pandemic
20 What book contains this poem?

The Hurting Kind

The Carrying

Bright Dead Things

Sharks in the Rivers
21 Which of the following literary techniques does NOT feature prominently in this poem?

repetition

simile

enjambment

alliteration
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?

as the only poem

as the last poem

as an endnote

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

Wallace Stevens

Robert Pinsky

Marianne Moore

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

marketing

biologist

Poet Laureate

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

failure

revision

touch

poetry

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