Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?

plugging their ears

rolling their eyes

turning their heads away

biting their tongue
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 punishment

a job

a reward
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Judy Brady

Octavia Butler
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?

bad wife

housewife

fishwife

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

tearing the earth

crying

journaling in the yard

staring
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 _______"

diminished

admonished

invalidated

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

child-inclusive

feminist

wife-approved

respectful
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"

fixing

grieving

writing

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

the single girls

the famous feminist

the reader

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

fighting the patriarchy

saying the word wife

writing her poems

loving her husband
14 What part of speech does the speaker use, five times in a row in lines 12-13, to describe a wife?

sounds

nouns

adjectives

verbs
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 is less feminist

the second half is all one long sentence

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

24

4

1

2
17 In what book was "Wife" published?

The Hurting Kind

The Carrying

Bright Dead Things

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

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is a full-time poet

She is also a highly successful scientist

She is unmarried
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?

domestic labor

astronomy

the natural world

machinery and weapons
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?

Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Wife

Poet Laureate of the United States
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?

Free verse

Sonnet

Epic

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

humorous to angry

critical to vulnerable

hopeless to ambitious

serious to ironic
24 Which award did this book win?

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Pulitzer Prize

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

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

phew

zing

whiff

woosh

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