The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?
Australian

flowery

bony

dramatic
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?
religious prediction

a winged seed

a small songbird

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

a small songbird

religious prediction

a winged seed
4 What song does Limón allude to?
America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

The Star-Spangled Banner

Paradise

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

sports jargon

religious allusion

videoconference troubleshooting
6 How is the farmer described?
stoic

certain

American

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

father

mother

child
8 What is on the dresser?
the gun

plant buds

a letter

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

desperate

frozen

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

chickadee

sycamore

maple
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?
sorrowful

longing

desperate

weary
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 ______"
ease

animals

worries

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

her pet

the chickadee

her child
16 How many sentences is this poem?
1

none

5

22
17 How many stanzas is this poem?
22

2

1

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

modernist poem

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?
The Carrying

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

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

enjambment

simile

alliteration
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?
as the first poem

as the last poem

as the only poem

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

Marianne Moore

Wallace Stevens

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 ______"
failure

poetry

revision

touch

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