The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?

bony

flowery

Australian

dramatic
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?

a small songbird

religious prediction

a winged seed

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

a winged seed

religious prediction

contrast of light and dark

a small songbird
4 What song does Limón allude to?

Paradise

Yankee Doodle

The Star-Spangled Banner

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)
5 Which of the following is NOT a type of language used in this poem?

religious allusion

sports jargon

biological terminology

videoconference troubleshooting
6 How is the farmer described?

certain

faithful

stoic

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

brother

child

father

mother
8 What is on the dresser?

a letter

the gun

plant buds

locks of hair
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?

chickadee

sunflower

maple

sycamore
11 What things are "not forgetting"?

god and our father

our father and faith

skin and god

the acquaintance and the gun
12 Which emotion word gets repeated twice within three lines?

weary

sorrowful

longing

desperate
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 ______"

worries

animals

ease

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

the chickadee

her child

her pet

the vaccine
16 How many sentences is this poem?

1

5

none

22
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

2

22

none

1
18 What is the term for a poem about poetry?

poetic refrain

modernist poem

ars poetica

chiaroscuro
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?

Bright Dead Things

The Carrying

The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers
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 an endnote

as the last poem

as the only poem

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

Robert Pinsky

Marianne Moore

Horace

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

marketing

podcasting

biologist

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

failure

revision

touch

poetry

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