Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

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

turning their heads away

plugging their ears

rolling their eyes
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 punishment

a role in a play

a reward

a job
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

A Room of One's Own

I Want A Wife

Sense and Sensibility
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?
fishwife

good wife

housewife

bad wife
7 Which of the following does the speaker NOT describe herself doing?
journaling in the yard

staring

crying

tearing the earth
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

admonished

diminished

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

child-inclusive

feminist

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

fixing

writing

grieving
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"?
saying the word wife

writing her poems

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 introduces a "you"

the second half is less feminist

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half is all one long sentence
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
1

2

24

4
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 supported entirely by patrons

She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet

She is also a highly successful scientist
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
domestic labor

the natural world

astronomy

machinery and weapons
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

horse jockey

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

Sonnet

Free verse

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

humorous to angry

critical to vulnerable

hopeless to ambitious
24 Which award did this book win?
The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Pulitzer Prize

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?
whiff

zing

phew

woosh

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