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"?
why

life

white

knife
3 The speaker asks why being a wife sounds like ______
a role in a play

a job

a reward

a punishment
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Octavia Butler

Virginia Woolf

Judy Brady

Jane Austen
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?
fishwife

housewife

good wife

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

tearing the earth

staring

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a roar of fire

the bark of a dog

a train whistle

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

invalidated

diminished

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

respectful

feminist

child-inclusive
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
fixing

writing

crying

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

the single girls

the famous feminist

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

fighting the patriarchy

saying the word wife

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?
nouns

sounds

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 less feminist

the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half is all one long sentence
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
2

4

24

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind

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

She is also a highly successful scientist

She is a full-time poet

She is supported entirely by patrons
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
machinery and weapons

domestic labor

astronomy

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

Poet Laureate of the United States

Wife

Famous Feminist
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?
marketing executive

schoolteacher

podcast host

horse jockey
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?
serious to ironic

critical to vulnerable

humorous to angry

hopeless to ambitious
24 Which award did this book win?
The Guggenheim Fellowship

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Pulitzer Prize

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

zing

phew

whiff

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