Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

By Rebecca Bedell · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed November 03, 2022

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?

turning their heads away

plugging their ears

rolling their eyes

biting their tongue
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?

white

why

knife

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

a reward

a job

a role in a play

a punishment
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?

Virginia Woolf

Judy Brady

Octavia Butler

Jane Austen
5 What is the title of the quoted work?

Kindred

A Room of One's Own

Sense and Sensibility

I Want A Wife
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?

fishwife

housewife

bad wife

good wife
7 Which of the following does the speaker NOT describe herself doing?

tearing the earth

staring

journaling in the yard

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?

the bark of a dog

the shriek of truck tires

a train whistle

a roar of fire
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"

diminished

invalidated

admonished

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

feminist

respectful

wife-approved

child-inclusive
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"

grieving

writing

crying

fixing
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?

the reader

the husband

the single girls

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

writing her poems

loving her husband

saying the word wife

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

nouns

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

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is less feminist

the second half is all one long sentence
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"?

the natural world

domestic labor

machinery and weapons

astronomy
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?

Wife

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of the United States
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?

podcast host

marketing executive

schoolteacher

horse jockey
22 What is this poem's form?

Free verse

Epic

Prose poem

Sonnet
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?

humorous to angry

hopeless to ambitious

serious to ironic

critical to vulnerable
24 Which award did this book win?

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Pulitzer Prize
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?

zing

phew

whiff

woosh

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