Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
turning their heads away

rolling their eyes

biting their tongue

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

life

why

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

a job

a role in a play

a reward
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Octavia Butler

Judy Brady
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
A Room of One's Own

I Want A Wife

Kindred

Sense and Sensibility
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?
good wife

housewife

fishwife

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

journaling in the yard

staring

tearing the earth
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a roar of fire

a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

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

diminished

invalidated

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

wife-approved

child-inclusive

respectful
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
fixing

writing

grieving

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

the husband

the single girls

the famous feminist
13 What does the speaker worry she "isn't good at"?
saying the word wife

writing her poems

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?
verbs

nouns

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 is all one long sentence

the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is less feminist

the second half is more vulnerable
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
2

4

24

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
The Hurting Kind

The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers

Bright Dead Things
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is a full-time poet

She is unmarried

She is also a highly successful scientist

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

the natural world

domestic labor

astronomy
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of the United States

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Wife
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?
Sonnet

Epic

Prose poem

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 National Book Critics Circle Award

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Pulitzer Prize

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?
phew

whiff

zing

woosh

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