The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?

flowery

bony

dramatic

Australian
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?

religious prediction

a winged seed

contrast of light and dark

a small songbird
3 What does "samara" mean?

religious prediction

a small songbird

a winged seed

contrast of light and dark
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

biological terminology

videoconference troubleshooting

sports jargon
6 How is the farmer described?

American

certain

stoic

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

mother

child

brother

father
8 What is on the dresser?

plant buds

a letter

locks of hair

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

desperate

brutal

frozen

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

chickadee

sycamore

sunflower

maple
11 What things are "not forgetting"?

skin and god

god and our father

our father and faith

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

sorrowful

desperate

longing

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

I am asking you to touch me

I cannot see you

I am human

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

sorrow

animals

worries

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

the vaccine

the chickadee

her child

her pet
16 How many sentences is this poem?

1

5

none

22
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

2

22

1

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

ars poetica

modernist poem

poetic refrain

chiaroscuro
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 Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

Sharks in the Rivers

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

repetition

alliteration

simile

enjambment
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?

as the only poem

as the last poem

as the first poem

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

Robert Pinsky

Wallace Stevens

Horace

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

podcasting

marketing

Poet Laureate

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

revision

failure

touch

poetry

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