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

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

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

Blank Verse

Free Verse

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter
3 What is an iamb?

A type of meat that is considered a delicacy in Australia

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

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
4 What is tetrameter?

A verse of three measures

A verse of four measures

A verse of six measures

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

This is no child with a child's face;

This is the maker and the made;

This is our hunter and our chase,

silent and swift and deep from sight
6 What is sibilance?

Repetition of "s" sounds

The sound a goat makes

The process of divination

Repetition of "m" sounds
7 Define "resurrection"

The revitalization or revival of something

Jesus's teachings

Lazarus

Another word for death
8 Which is an example of anaphora in the poem?

Strength

The Maker

Shapeless

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

Their guilt

The couple's child

A ghost

Another lover
10 Which of the following is not used to represent the creation of life?

our hunter and our chase

the maker and the made;

the question and reply;

the strength that my arm knows
11 Which is not a theme in the poem?

Collective Experience

Natural Course of Life

Grief

Unity
12 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Five

Four

Three

Six
13 What is suggested by the title?

The speaker is angry at her partner

There exists a collective human experience

The male speaker imagines what it is like to be female

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

Being in the world

Evil

Being overwhelmed

Blindness
15 What does the poem simultaneously refer to?

The sexual act and the period of gestation

Being single and being a parent

Love and hate

Anger and forgiveness
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?

yet you and I have known it well.

foresees the unimagined light.

the blind head butting at the dark,

the arc of flesh that is my breast,
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

There is no significance

It negatively compares the couple's bodies

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?

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

Complains to the addressee

Focus on holding the baby

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

The baby is born

The baby does not exist

No

Yes
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

Self-defence

Weaponry
24 Who is being addressed in the poem?

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

The speaker's child

God

Just the speaker's partner
25 Which line best infuses a divine quality into the creation of life?

this has no name to name it by;

This is the maker and the made;

he blind head butting at the dark,

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

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