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?
Iambic tetrameter

Free Verse

Blank Verse

Iambic pentameter
3 What is an iamb?
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

A metrical foot consisting of an stressed syllable followed by another stressed syllable
4 What is tetrameter?
A verse of six measures

A verse of five measures

A verse of three measures

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

silent and swift and deep from sight

This is no child with a child's face;

This is our hunter and our chase,
6 What is sibilance?
The sound a goat makes

Repetition of "m" sounds

The process of divination

Repetition of "s" sounds
7 Define "resurrection"
Another word for death

The revitalization or revival of something

Jesus's teachings

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?
The couple's child

Another lover

Their guilt

A ghost
10 Which of the following is not used to represent the creation of life?
the strength that my arm knows

the maker and the made;

the question and reply;

our hunter and our chase
11 Which is not a theme in the poem?
Natural Course of Life

Unity

Collective Experience

Grief
12 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Three

Six

Five

Four
13 What is suggested by the title?
The speaker is a female deity

The speaker is angry at her partner

The male speaker imagines what it is like to be female

There exists a collective human experience
14 What does light represent in the poem?
Being overwhelmed

Evil

Blindness

Being in the world
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?
There is no significance

Roses do not come from trees

It naturalizes the creation of life

It is beautiful but has no meaning
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 inserts a divine quality into the creation of life

It negatively compares the couple's bodies

There is no significance

It grounds the creation of life inside human anatomy and physiology
19 Which line implies some danger in life?
the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

This is our hunter and our chase,

This is no child with a child's face;

the precise crystals of our eyes.
20 What does the last line do in the poem?
Complains to the addressee

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

Focus on holding the baby

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

The baby does not exist

The baby is born

No
22 Which description best contributes to a sense of tessellation in the poem?
foresees the unimagined light.

the precise crystals of our eyes.

This is our hunter and our chase,

This is no child with a child's face;
23 What is "the blade" suggestive of?
Safety

Pain, danger, walking a thin line

Weaponry

Self-defence
24 Who is being addressed in the poem?
Just the speaker's partner

God

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

The speaker's child
25 Which line best infuses a divine quality into the creation of life?
the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

This is the maker and the made;

this has no name to name it by;

he blind head butting at the dark,

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