The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?

dramatic

bony

flowery

Australian
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?

a winged seed

contrast of light and dark

a small songbird

religious prediction
3 What does "samara" mean?

a winged seed

religious prediction

a small songbird

contrast of light and dark
4 What song does Limón allude to?

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

Yankee Doodle

The Star-Spangled Banner

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

biological terminology

sports jargon

videoconference troubleshooting

religious allusion
6 How is the farmer described?

stoic

American

certain

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

child

mother

father

brother
8 What is on the dresser?

a letter

plant buds

the gun

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

willful

brutal

desperate

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

sunflower

chickadee

maple

sycamore
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?

desperate

longing

sorrowful

weary
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 ______"

sorrow

ease

worries

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

the chickadee

her pet

the vaccine

her child
16 How many sentences is this poem?

22

5

1

none
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

none

1

2

22
18 What is the term for a poem about poetry?

chiaroscuro

poetic refrain

ars poetica

modernist poem
19 During what world event was this poem written?

World War II

The Spanish flu pandemic

The Iraq War

The COVID pandemic
20 What book contains this poem?

The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things
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 an endnote

as the only poem

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

Horace

Robert Pinsky

Wallace Stevens

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

podcasting

marketing

biologist

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

revision

poetry

touch

failure

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