The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?
flowery

dramatic

bony

Australian
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?
a winged seed

a small songbird

religious prediction

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

a winged seed

religious prediction

a small songbird
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

videoconference troubleshooting

biological terminology

sports jargon
6 How is the farmer described?
certain

American

stoic

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

child

father

mother
8 What is on the dresser?
the gun

a letter

plant buds

locks of hair
9 What adjective is most closely paired with "the border"?
willful

desperate

brutal

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

sunflower

maple

chickadee
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?
sorrowful

longing

weary

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

I am asking you to touch me

I cannot see you

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

sorrow

ease

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

the chickadee

the vaccine

her child
16 How many sentences is this poem?
none

5

22

1
17 How many stanzas is this poem?
1

none

22

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

chiaroscuro

ars poetica

poetic refrain
19 During what world event was this poem written?
The Spanish flu pandemic

The COVID pandemic

The Iraq War

World War II
20 What book contains this poem?
Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

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

repetition

enjambment

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"?
Marianne Moore

Robert Pinsky

Wallace Stevens

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

Poet Laureate

biologist

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

poetry

revision

failure

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