What Were They Like? Quizzes

What Were They Like? Quiz

1 Who is the "They" in "What Were They Like?"
American soldiers

The farmers of Laos

Any victim of war

The people of Vietnam
2 What is described as "stone" in the poem?
Walls

Lanterns

Ornaments

Paths
3 The poem was written about which historical event?
The Korean War

The Holocaust

The Vietnam War

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

Present tense

Past perfect tense

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

Farmers

Peasants

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

Luxury

Jewelry

Ornaments
7 What is compared to a "mirror" in the poem
The horrors of war

Jade mirrors

Rice paddies

Lanterns
8 In the poem, do the Vietnamese have an epic poem?
They had an epic poem about war

They had an epic poem about the arrival of spring

No one knows

They had a religious epic
9 "Moths in moonlight" describe
Vietnamese war planes

Vietnamese proverbs

Vietnamese insects

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

The questioner

The respondent

The American soldier
11 What is NOT one of the main meaning of "buds" in the poem?
Agriculture

Spring

Children

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

"Perhaps"

"A dream ago"

"It is not remembered"
13 Which is Denise Levertov's other famous anti-war poem?
"Wichita Vortex Sutra"

"If We Must Die"

"Life at War"

"First Encounter"
14 With which school of poetry is Denise Levertov NOT associated?
New York School

Modernism

New American Poetry

Black Mountain
15 The poem's setting is
an American base

unnamed

a Vietnamese village

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 cost of war

The importance of protecting cultures

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 ..."
Peace

Rich people

Times of celebration

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

Singing

Screams

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

They were very serious

The laughed loudly and joyfully

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

Rhyme

Metaphor

Motif
23 The Vietnam War lasted from 1955 to
1975

1982

1967

1968
24 Who was another major poet who wrote poems against the war in Vietnam?
George Sassoon

Allen Ginsberg

Anne Carson

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

Organic verse

Projective verse

Epic verse

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