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

plugging their ears

rolling their eyes
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 punishment

a role in a play

a job
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Judy Brady

Jane Austen

Virginia Woolf

Octavia Butler
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
A Room of One's Own

Kindred

I Want A Wife

Sense and Sensibility
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?
journaling in the yard

tearing the earth

staring

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a train whistle

a roar of fire

the bark of a dog

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

erased

admonished

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

respectful

child-inclusive

wife-approved
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
writing

crying

grieving

fixing
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"?
writing her poems

fighting the patriarchy

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 introduces a "you"

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half is all one long sentence

the second half is less feminist
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
4

2

24

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Sharks in the Rivers

Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind

The Carrying
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"?
astronomy

machinery and weapons

domestic labor

the natural world
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of the United States

Wife

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

horse jockey

marketing executive

schoolteacher
22 What is this poem's form?
Free verse

Sonnet

Epic

Prose poem
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?
critical to vulnerable

hopeless to ambitious

serious to ironic

humorous to angry
24 Which award did this book win?
The Pulitzer Prize

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Guggenheim Fellowship

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

zing

woosh

whiff

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