The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?
flowery

dramatic

Australian

bony
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?
contrast of light and dark

religious prediction

a small songbird

a winged seed
3 What does "samara" mean?
a winged seed

a small songbird

contrast of light and dark

religious prediction
4 What song does Limón allude to?
Yankee Doodle

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

Paradise

The Star-Spangled Banner
5 Which of the following is NOT a type of language used in this poem?
videoconference troubleshooting

sports jargon

biological terminology

religious allusion
6 How is the farmer described?
faithful

certain

stoic

American
7 Which family role is NOT mentioned in this poem?
father

child

mother

brother
8 What is on the dresser?
the gun

locks of hair

plant buds

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

brutal

willful

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

sycamore

maple

chickadee
11 What things are "not forgetting"?
skin and god

god and our father

the acquaintance and the gun

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

desperate

weary

sorrowful
13 What does the speaker say before "I am alone and I am desperate"?
I cannot see you

I am human

I am asking you to touch me

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

animals

sorrow

ease
15 What is the poet most likely referring to by "the animal saving me"
her child

the chickadee

the vaccine

her pet
16 How many sentences is this poem?
22

none

1

5
17 How many stanzas is this poem?
none

1

22

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

chiaroscuro

modernist poem

poetic refrain
19 During what world event was this poem written?
The Iraq War

The COVID pandemic

The Spanish flu pandemic

World War II
20 What book contains this poem?
The Carrying

Bright Dead Things

Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind
21 Which of the following literary techniques does NOT feature prominently in this poem?
repetition

simile

alliteration

enjambment
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?
as an endnote

as the only poem

as the first poem

as the last poem
23 Who wrote "I too, dislike it"?
Marianne Moore

Wallace Stevens

Robert Pinsky

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

biologist

marketing

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

poetry

touch

revision

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