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

rolling their eyes

plugging their ears
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 reward

a role in a play

a job
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?

Octavia Butler

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Judy Brady
5 What is the title of the quoted work?

A Room of One's Own

Kindred

Sense and Sensibility

I Want A Wife
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?

tearing the earth

journaling in the yard

staring

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?

the bark of a dog

a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"

invalidated

admonished

erased

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

respectful

child-inclusive

wife-approved

feminist
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"

fixing

writing

crying

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

the single girls

the husband

the famous feminist

the reader
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?

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 introduces a "you"

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

4

2

24

1
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"?

astronomy

domestic labor

the natural world

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

Poet Laureate of the United States

Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Wife
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?

schoolteacher

marketing executive

podcast host

horse jockey
22 What is this poem's form?

Sonnet

Epic

Free verse

Prose poem
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 Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Critics Circle Award

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

zing

woosh

whiff

phew

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