Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
rolling their eyes

plugging their ears

turning their heads away

biting their tongue
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 job

a role in a play

a reward

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

Octavia Butler

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
A Room of One's Own

Sense and Sensibility

I Want A Wife

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

good wife

bad wife

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

staring

tearing the earth

journaling in the yard
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
the bark of a dog

the shriek of truck tires

a train whistle

a roar of fire
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 _________"
feminist

child-inclusive

wife-approved

respectful
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
grieving

crying

writing

fixing
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?
the reader

the famous feminist

the single girls

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

saying the word wife

loving her husband

fighting the patriarchy
14 What part of speech does the speaker use, five times in a row in lines 12-13, to describe a wife?
sounds

adjectives

verbs

nouns
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 is all one long sentence

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half introduces a "you"
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
2

24

1

4
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Bright Dead Things

The Carrying

The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is a full-time poet

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is unmarried

She is also a highly successful scientist
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?
Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Wife

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

horse jockey

schoolteacher

marketing executive
22 What is this poem's form?
Free verse

Prose poem

Epic

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

humorous to angry

critical to vulnerable

hopeless to ambitious
24 Which award did this book win?
The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Pulitzer Prize
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?
whiff

zing

phew

woosh

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