Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
turning their heads away

rolling their eyes

biting their tongue

plugging their ears
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?
knife

why

white

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

a reward

a role in a play

a punishment
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Jane Austen

Judy Brady

Virginia Woolf

Octavia Butler
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
Sense and Sensibility

A Room of One's Own

Kindred

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

bad wife

housewife

fishwife
7 Which of the following does the speaker NOT describe herself doing?
tearing the earth

journaling in the yard

staring

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a train whistle

a roar of fire

the bark of a dog

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

erased

diminished

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

respectful

child-inclusive

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

writing

fixing

grieving
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?
the reader

the single girls

the famous feminist

the husband
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?
verbs

nouns

adjectives

sounds
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 less feminist

the second half is more vulnerable
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
2

4

24

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying
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"?
domestic labor

machinery and weapons

astronomy

the natural world
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Poet Laureate of the United States

Wife

Famous Feminist

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

marketing executive

horse jockey

schoolteacher
22 What is this poem's form?
Prose poem

Epic

Sonnet

Free verse
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 Guggenheim Fellowship

The Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Critics Circle Award
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?
phew

woosh

whiff

zing

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