Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?

biting their tongue

plugging their ears

rolling their eyes

turning their heads away
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?

white

life

why

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

a role in a play

a punishment

a reward

a job
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?

Judy Brady

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Octavia Butler
5 What is the title of the quoted work?

Sense and Sensibility

A Room of One's Own

I Want A Wife

Kindred
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?

good wife

bad wife

housewife

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

journaling in the yard

staring

tearing the earth

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?

a roar of fire

the shriek of truck tires

the bark of a dog

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

invalidated

diminished

admonished

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

child-inclusive

wife-approved

respectful

feminist
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"

grieving

crying

fixing

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

the single girls

the reader

the famous feminist

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

loving her husband

fighting the patriarchy

writing her poems

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?

verbs

sounds

nouns

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 all one long sentence

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is less feminist
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?

2

4

1

24
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 also a highly successful scientist

She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?

the natural world

domestic labor

astronomy

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

Wife

Poet Laureate of the United States

Famous Feminist

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

horse jockey

marketing executive

podcast host

schoolteacher
22 What is this poem's form?

Free verse

Epic

Prose poem

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

critical to vulnerable

serious to ironic

hopeless to ambitious

humorous to angry
24 Which award did this book win?

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Pulitzer Prize

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

phew

woosh

zing

whiff

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