The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?
bony

dramatic

Australian

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

a small songbird

contrast of light and dark

religious prediction
3 What does "samara" mean?
a small songbird

religious prediction

contrast of light and dark

a winged seed
4 What song does Limón allude to?
The Star-Spangled Banner

Yankee Doodle

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

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

religious allusion

sports jargon

biological terminology
6 How is the farmer described?
certain

American

stoic

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

brother

child

father
8 What is on the dresser?
plant buds

locks of hair

a letter

the gun
9 What adjective is most closely paired with "the border"?
desperate

willful

brutal

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

sycamore

sunflower

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

the acquaintance and the gun

our father and faith

god and our father
12 Which emotion word gets repeated twice within three lines?
weary

longing

sorrowful

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

I am here

I cannot see you

I am asking you to touch me
14 "Enough of the air and its ______"
sorrow

worries

ease

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

her child

the vaccine

the chickadee
16 How many sentences is this poem?
22

5

none

1
17 How many stanzas is this poem?
2

22

1

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

poetic refrain

modernist poem

ars poetica
19 During what world event was this poem written?
The Iraq War

World War II

The Spanish flu pandemic

The COVID pandemic
20 What book contains this poem?
Bright Dead Things

The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers

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

alliteration

enjambment

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

as the first poem

as the only poem

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

Marianne Moore

Robert Pinsky

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

Poet Laureate

marketing

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

poetry

failure

touch

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