Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

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"?
knife

why

white

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

a job

a reward

a role in a play
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?
A Room of One's Own

Sense and Sensibility

Kindred

I Want A Wife
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

journaling in the yard

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire

the bark of a dog

a train whistle
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"
diminished

erased

invalidated

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

feminist

child-inclusive

respectful
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
writing

crying

fixing

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

the famous feminist

the husband

the single girls
13 What does the speaker worry she "isn't good at"?
fighting the patriarchy

writing her poems

loving her husband

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?
nouns

verbs

sounds

adjectives
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"?
1

24

2

4
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind

The Carrying

Bright Dead Things
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is also a highly successful scientist

She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet

She is supported entirely by patrons
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?
Famous Feminist

Wife

Poet Laureate of the United States

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

podcast host

horse jockey

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

Epic

Free verse

Sonnet
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 Pulitzer Prize

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

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

whiff

zing

phew

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