The House (poem) Quizzes

The House (poem) Quiz

1 What was the name of Warsan Shire's first poetry collection?
Lemonade

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Extreme Girlhood

Her Blue Body
2 Where was Warsan Shire born?
Somalia

Kenya

America

England
3 Which of these themes is "The House" NOT about?
Love

Memory

Sexual abuse

Migration
4 What happens to the character Johnny in "The House"?
He calls God through the window but receives no answer

He sneaks into the speaker's house and ends up chained in the basement

He wakes up in a bathtub full of ice

He breaks into the basement of dreams
5 Which of Warsan Shire's poems went viral first?
River of Milk

For Women Who are Difficult to Love

Backwards

The House
6 What is the name of Warsan Shire's audio-poetry album on Bandcamp?
warsan versus melancholy

Lemonade

Her Blue Body

The House
7 Warsan Shire was the Younger Poet Laureate of...
London

Los Angeles

Mogadishu

Nairobi
8 Shire edits which magazine...?
Ebony

Diode

Honeysuckle

SPOOK
9 Shire is often called a voice for...
Christianity

Pacifism

Radicalism

Diaspora
10 From where does "The House" get its title?
From something the speaker's father said

From something the speaker's first love said

From something the speaker thought of

From something the speaker's mother said
11 "The House" uses what form to separate its stanzas?
Numbers

Letters

Bullet points

Roman numerals
12 The sentence "Nin soo joog laga waayo, soo jiifso aa laga helaa" is in what language?
Somali

Afrikaans

Xhosa

Zulu
13 What is an example of a motif in "The House"?
The jam jar

The kitchen of lust

The apple

The house
14 The phrase "new, neat procedure" is likely referring to...
A birth

A murder

A sex change

Castration
15 Near the end of the poem the speaker is questioned by whom...
A social worker

A true love

A police officer

A teacher
16 Which is an example of a motif in "The House"?
Johnny's bottle of bleach

The house as a feminine body

The bathtub

The narrator's mother's warnings
17 What is one of Warsan Shire's main poetic subjects?
Queerness and gender identification

Diaspora and displacement

The trappings of ambition

The American dream
18 What is the function of humor in "The House"?
It manages the darkness of what the narrator is saying

It adds lightness to contrast the poem's heaviness

It represents the narrator's desire to connect with others

It is a way of making other people laugh
19 Warsan Shire's poetry was featured in which of these in 2016?
The Museum of Modern Art

Beyoncé's Lemonade

Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer

The Nuyorican's slam poetry finals
20 Warsan Shire was born in what year?
1988

1997

1984

1963

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