What Were They Like? Quizzes

What Were They Like? Quiz

1 Who is the "They" in "What Were They Like?"
The farmers of Laos

Any victim of war

The people of Vietnam

American soldiers
2 What is described as "stone" in the poem?
Ornaments

Walls

Paths

Lanterns
3 The poem was written about which historical event?
The Holocaust

The Korean War

The Vietnam War

World War II
4 Which tense does the poem mostly use?
Present tense

Past tense

Future tense

Past perfect tense
5 The Vietnamese people described in the poem are
Regular people

Peasants

Farmers

All of the above
6 Bone, ivory, jade, and silver are given as examples of
Luxury

Frivolity

Jewelry

Ornaments
7 What is compared to a "mirror" in the poem
Jade mirrors

Lanterns

Rice paddies

The horrors of war
8 In the poem, do the Vietnamese have an epic poem?
They had an epic poem about war

No one knows

They had a religious epic

They had an epic poem about the arrival of spring
9 "Moths in moonlight" describe
Vietnamese insects

Vietnamese proverbs

Vietnamese songs

Vietnamese war planes
10 Who is called "sir" in the poem?
The Vietnamese old man

The American soldier

The respondent

The questioner
11 What is NOT one of the main meaning of "buds" in the poem?
Reproduction

Spring

Children

Agriculture
12 Which is NOT an example of uncertainty in the poem?
"It is silent now"

"It is not remembered"

"Perhaps"

"A dream ago"
13 Which is Denise Levertov's other famous anti-war poem?
"If We Must Die"

"First Encounter"

"Life at War"

"Wichita Vortex Sutra"
14 With which school of poetry is Denise Levertov NOT associated?
New American Poetry

New York School

Black Mountain

Modernism
15 The poem's setting is
a Vietnamese village

unnamed

an American base

a bomb shelter
16 The tone of the second stanza can be described as
Formal

Impassionate

Enthusiastic

Elegaic
17 Which is NOT a major theme in the poem?
The viciousness of American soldiers

The importance of protecting cultures

The cost of war

The common humanity of all people
18 Hearts turned to stone is an example of a
Motif

Allegory

Metaphor

Metonymy
19 Finish the line: "Ornament is for ..."
Times of celebration

Joy

Rich people

Peace
20 The questioner wants to know whether the Vietnamese distinguished between speech and
Whispers

Screams

Singing

Epic poetry
21 Were the Vietnamese "inclined to quiet laughter?"
They preferred to sing

The laughed loudly and joyfully

They were very serious

Perhaps before the war
22 "Moths in moonlight" is an example of
Rhyme

Motif

Metaphor

Alliteration
23 The Vietnam War lasted from 1955 to
1975

1967

1968

1982
24 Who was another major poet who wrote poems against the war in Vietnam?
George Sassoon

Anne Carson

Allen Ginsberg

Jack Kerouac
25 Levertov referred to her poetic form as
Epic verse

Organic verse

Free verse

Projective verse

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