Woman to Man Quizzes

Woman to Man Quiz

1 Which of the following is not true about the speaker?
In speaking about her own situation, a woman connects to all of humanity

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

The speaker is definitely Wright herself

A woman addresses her partner
2 What is the poem's meter?
Blank Verse

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Free Verse
3 What is an iamb?
A metrical foot consisting of an stressed syllable followed by another stressed syllable

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

A type of meat that is considered a delicacy in Australia

A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
4 What is tetrameter?
A verse of three measures

A verse of four measures

A verse of five measures

A verse of six measures
5 Which is an example of sibilance?
This is the maker and the made;

This is no child with a child's face;

silent and swift and deep from sight

This is our hunter and our chase,
6 What is sibilance?
The process of divination

Repetition of "s" sounds

Repetition of "m" sounds

The sound a goat makes
7 Define "resurrection"
Jesus's teachings

Another word for death

The revitalization or revival of something

Lazarus
8 Which is an example of anaphora in the poem?
The Maker

Strength

Shapeless

This is
9 Who is the third that lays in the couple's embrace?
Another lover

A ghost

Their guilt

The couple's child
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

Grief

Natural Course of Life

Collective Experience
12 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Three

Five

Six

Four
13 What is suggested by the title?
The male speaker imagines what it is like to be female

There exists a collective human experience

The speaker is angry at her partner

The speaker is a female deity
14 What does light represent in the poem?
Blindness

Evil

Being overwhelmed

Being in the world
15 What does the poem simultaneously refer to?
Being single and being a parent

Love and hate

The sexual act and the period of gestation

Anger and forgiveness
16 What is significant about the metaphor concerning the blood's wild tree and the intricate and folded rose?
There is no significance

It is beautiful but has no meaning

It naturalizes the creation of life

Roses do not come from trees
17 Which line suggests an ignorance involved in creating life?
the blind head butting at the dark,

the arc of flesh that is my breast,

foresees the unimagined light.

yet you and I have known it well.
18 What is significant about mentioning the man's strength and the arc of the woman's flesh?
It grounds the creation of life inside human anatomy and physiology

There is no significance

It inserts a divine quality into the creation of life

It negatively compares the couple's bodies
19 Which line implies some danger in life?
the precise crystals of our eyes.

This is no child with a child's face;

This is our hunter and our chase,

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,
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

Shifts the focus, voice, and tone

Focus on holding the baby

Complains to the addressee
21 In the beginning of the poem, is the baby already developed?
Yes

The baby is born

The baby does not exist

No
22 Which description best contributes to a sense of tessellation in the poem?
the precise crystals of our eyes.

This is our hunter and our chase,

This is no child with a child's face;

foresees the unimagined light.
23 What is "the blade" suggestive of?
Pain, danger, walking a thin line

Safety

Weaponry

Self-defence
24 Who is being addressed in the poem?
The speaker's child

God

Just the speaker's partner

The speaker's partner, and the reader (all of humanity)
25 Which line best infuses a divine quality into the creation of life?
this has no name to name it by;

he blind head butting at the dark,

This is the maker and the made;

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

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