Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
biting their tongue

turning their heads away

plugging their ears

rolling their eyes
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?
life

why

knife

white
3 The speaker asks why being a wife sounds like ______
a reward

a punishment

a role in a play

a job
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Octavia Butler

Judy Brady
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
A Room of One's Own

I Want A Wife

Kindred

Sense and Sensibility
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?
fishwife

bad wife

good wife

housewife
7 Which of the following does the speaker NOT describe herself doing?
crying

tearing the earth

journaling in the yard

staring
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a roar of fire

a train whistle

the bark of a dog

the shriek of truck tires
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"
admonished

erased

diminished

invalidated
10 The single girls say that their friend's upcoming trip is "not _________"
child-inclusive

respectful

wife-approved

feminist
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
fixing

grieving

crying

writing
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?
the husband

the famous feminist

the single girls

the reader
13 What does the speaker worry she "isn't good at"?
saying the word wife

writing her poems

loving her husband

fighting the patriarchy
14 What part of speech does the speaker use, five times in a row in lines 12-13, to describe a wife?
verbs

adjectives

sounds

nouns
15 Which of the following is NOT a way in which the poem's second half differs from the first?
the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is all one long sentence

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half is less feminist
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
24

2

4

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is unmarried

She is also a highly successful scientist

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is a full-time poet
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
astronomy

machinery and weapons

domestic labor

the natural world
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Wife

Poet Laureate of the United States

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Famous Feminist
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?
schoolteacher

podcast host

horse jockey

marketing executive
22 What is this poem's form?
Free verse

Prose poem

Sonnet

Epic
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?
hopeless to ambitious

humorous to angry

critical to vulnerable

serious to ironic
24 Which award did this book win?
The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Guggenheim Fellowship
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?
woosh

phew

whiff

zing

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