What Were They Like? Quizzes

What Were They Like? Quiz

1 Who is the "They" in "What Were They Like?"
Any victim of war

The farmers of Laos

American soldiers

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

Walls

Paths

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

The Vietnam War

World War II

The Holocaust
4 Which tense does the poem mostly use?
Past perfect tense

Past tense

Future tense

Present tense
5 The Vietnamese people described in the poem are
Peasants

Farmers

Regular people

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

Frivolity

Ornaments

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

Rice paddies

Lanterns

Jade mirrors
8 In the poem, do the Vietnamese have an epic poem?
They had an epic poem about the arrival of spring

They had an epic poem about war

They had a religious epic

No one knows
9 "Moths in moonlight" describe
Vietnamese insects

Vietnamese war planes

Vietnamese proverbs

Vietnamese songs
10 Who is called "sir" in the poem?
The American soldier

The Vietnamese old man

The questioner

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

Children

Reproduction

Spring
12 Which is NOT an example of uncertainty in the poem?
"A dream ago"

"It is silent now"

"It is not remembered"

"Perhaps"
13 Which is Denise Levertov's other famous anti-war poem?
"Wichita Vortex Sutra"

"First Encounter"

"If We Must Die"

"Life at War"
14 With which school of poetry is Denise Levertov NOT associated?
Black Mountain

Modernism

New York School

New American Poetry
15 The poem's setting is
unnamed

a Vietnamese village

an American base

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

Enthusiastic

Formal

Impassionate
17 Which is NOT a major theme in the poem?
The common humanity of all people

The cost of war

The importance of protecting cultures

The viciousness of American soldiers
18 Hearts turned to stone is an example of a
Motif

Allegory

Metonymy

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

Rich people

Peace

Joy
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
Alliteration

Motif

Metaphor

Rhyme
23 The Vietnam War lasted from 1955 to
1967

1975

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
Free verse

Projective verse

Organic verse

Epic verse

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