Woman to Man Quizzes

Woman to Man Quiz

1 Which of the following is not true about the speaker?

A woman addresses her partner

A woman ponders the creation of life from the intimate sexual act until the labor of birth

The speaker is definitely Wright herself

In speaking about her own situation, a woman connects to all of humanity
2 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic pentameter

Blank Verse

Free Verse

Iambic tetrameter
3 What is an iamb?

A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

A metrical foot consisting of an stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

A metrical foot consisting of an stressed syllable followed by another stressed syllable

A type of meat that is considered a delicacy in Australia
4 What is tetrameter?

A verse of six measures

A verse of four measures

A verse of five measures

A verse of three measures
5 Which is an example of sibilance?

silent and swift and deep from sight

This is our hunter and our chase,

This is the maker and the made;

This is no child with a child's face;
6 What is sibilance?

The process of divination

Repetition of "m" sounds

The sound a goat makes

Repetition of "s" sounds
7 Define "resurrection"

Lazarus

Another word for death

The revitalization or revival of something

Jesus's teachings
8 Which is an example of anaphora in the poem?

The Maker

This is

Shapeless

Strength
9 Who is the third that lays in the couple's embrace?

A ghost

The couple's child

Another lover

Their guilt
10 Which of the following is not used to represent the creation of life?

the maker and the made;

the strength that my arm knows

our hunter and our chase

the question and reply;
11 Which is not a theme in the poem?

Unity

Natural Course of Life

Collective Experience

Grief
12 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Four

Five

Six

Three
13 What is suggested by the title?

There exists a collective human experience

The speaker is a female deity

The male speaker imagines what it is like to be female

The speaker is angry at her partner
14 What does light represent in the poem?

Blindness

Being in the world

Evil

Being overwhelmed
15 What does the poem simultaneously refer to?

Love and hate

Anger and forgiveness

Being single and being a parent

The sexual act and the period of gestation
16 What is significant about the metaphor concerning the blood's wild tree and the intricate and folded rose?

It naturalizes the creation of life

There is no significance

It is beautiful but has no meaning

Roses do not come from trees
17 Which line suggests an ignorance involved in creating life?

foresees the unimagined light.

the arc of flesh that is my breast,

yet you and I have known it well.

the blind head butting at the dark,
18 What is significant about mentioning the man's strength and the arc of the woman's flesh?

It negatively compares the couple's bodies

It inserts a divine quality into the creation of life

It grounds the creation of life inside human anatomy and physiology

There is no significance
19 Which line implies some danger in life?

This is no child with a child's face;

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

the precise crystals of our eyes.

This is our hunter and our chase,
20 What does the last line do in the poem?

Suggest the cycle of generations by implying the speaker will one day be a grandmother

Focus on holding the baby

Complains to the addressee

Shifts the focus, voice, and tone
21 In the beginning of the poem, is the baby already developed?

Yes

The baby does not exist

No

The baby is born
22 Which description best contributes to a sense of tessellation in the poem?

This is no child with a child's face;

foresees the unimagined light.

the precise crystals of our eyes.

This is our hunter and our chase,
23 What is "the blade" suggestive of?

Weaponry

Pain, danger, walking a thin line

Safety

Self-defence
24 Who is being addressed in the poem?

The speaker's child

The speaker's partner, and the reader (all of humanity)

Just the speaker's partner

God
25 Which line best infuses a divine quality into the creation of life?

he blind head butting at the dark,

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

This is the maker and the made;

this has no name to name it by;

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