Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?

turning their heads away

biting their tongue

rolling their eyes

plugging their ears
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?

why

life

knife

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

a reward

a job

a role in a play

a punishment
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?

bad wife

fishwife

housewife

good wife
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?

a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire

the bark of a dog
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"

diminished

admonished

invalidated

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

child-inclusive

feminist

respectful

wife-approved
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"

fixing

writing

grieving

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

the reader

the husband

the famous feminist

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

loving her husband

saying the word wife

fighting the patriarchy

writing her poems
14 What part of speech does the speaker use, five times in a row in lines 12-13, to describe a wife?

verbs

sounds

adjectives

nouns
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 more vulnerable

the second half is less feminist

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

24

4

2

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?

The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers

Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?

She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet

She is also a highly successful scientist

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

machinery and weapons

astronomy

the natural world

domestic labor
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?

Poet Laureate of the United States

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Famous Feminist

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

marketing executive

podcast host

schoolteacher

horse jockey
22 What is this poem's form?

Prose poem

Sonnet

Epic

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

hopeless to ambitious

humorous to angry

serious to ironic

critical to vulnerable
24 Which award did this book win?

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Pulitzer Prize

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

whiff

phew

woosh

zing

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