Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

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

rolling their eyes

plugging their ears

turning their heads away
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?
why

knife

white

life
3 The speaker asks why being a wife sounds like ______
a role in a play

a reward

a job

a punishment
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Octavia Butler

Jane Austen

Virginia Woolf

Judy Brady
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
Sense and Sensibility

I Want A Wife

Kindred

A Room of One's Own
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?
the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire

the bark of a dog

a train whistle
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"
erased

invalidated

admonished

diminished
10 The single girls say that their friend's upcoming trip is "not _________"
respectful

child-inclusive

feminist

wife-approved
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
writing

fixing

grieving

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

the single girls

the reader

the famous feminist
13 What does the speaker worry she "isn't good at"?
loving her husband

writing her poems

fighting the patriarchy

saying the word wife
14 What part of speech does the speaker use, five times in a row in lines 12-13, to describe a wife?
nouns

sounds

verbs

adjectives
15 Which of the following is NOT a way in which the poem's second half differs from the first?
the second half is all one long sentence

the second half is less feminist

the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is more vulnerable
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
4

1

24

2
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind

The Carrying

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

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is also a highly successful scientist

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

domestic labor

the natural world

astronomy
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Wife

Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of the United States

Poet Laureate of Kentucky
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?
horse jockey

marketing executive

schoolteacher

podcast host
22 What is this poem's form?
Prose poem

Free verse

Sonnet

Epic
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?
humorous to angry

critical to vulnerable

serious to ironic

hopeless to ambitious
24 Which award did this book win?
The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Pulitzer Prize

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

woosh

zing

whiff

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