Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?

rolling their eyes

plugging their ears

biting their tongue

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

knife

why

life

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

a reward

a role in a play

a job

a punishment
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?

I Want A Wife

Sense and Sensibility

A Room of One's Own

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

housewife

fishwife

good wife

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

journaling in the yard

staring

crying

tearing the earth
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?

the shriek of truck tires

the bark of a dog

a roar of fire

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

admonished

diminished

invalidated

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

wife-approved

respectful

child-inclusive

feminist
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"

grieving

writing

crying

fixing
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"?

saying the word wife

fighting the patriarchy

writing her poems

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

adjectives

verbs

nouns

sounds
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 introduces a "you"

the second half is more vulnerable

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

4

2

1

24
17 In what book was "Wife" published?

The Carrying

The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers

Bright Dead Things
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?

She is unmarried

She is also a highly successful scientist

She is a full-time poet

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

domestic labor

astronomy

the natural world

machinery and weapons
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

schoolteacher

marketing executive

horse jockey
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?

humorous to angry

serious to ironic

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"?

zing

woosh

phew

whiff

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