Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
plugging their ears

turning their heads away

rolling their eyes

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

white

why

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

a role in a play

a punishment

a reward
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?
Kindred

I Want A Wife

Sense and Sensibility

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?
staring

tearing the earth

crying

journaling in the yard
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire

the bark of a dog
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"
erased

admonished

invalidated

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

respectful

wife-approved

feminist
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
crying

fixing

grieving

writing
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?
the single girls

the reader

the husband

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

saying the word wife

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?
adjectives

nouns

verbs

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 all one long sentence

the second half is less feminist

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half introduces a "you"
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
24

4

2

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

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying

Bright Dead Things
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is also a highly successful scientist
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
machinery and weapons

astronomy

domestic labor

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

Famous Feminist

Wife

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

marketing executive

horse jockey

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

Prose poem

Sonnet

Free verse
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?
serious to ironic

hopeless to ambitious

humorous to angry

critical to vulnerable
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"?
whiff

woosh

phew

zing

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