Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

1 What kind of poem is "Yet Do I Marvel"?
Villanelle

Haiku

Free verse

Sonnet
2 Which of the following entities does not appear in the poem?
God

Sisyphus

Prometheus

Tantalus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Greedy

Marvelous

Cruel

Impossible to understand
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
The place where Tantalus is trapped

The road to poetic fame

Where God dwells

Sisyphus' hill
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?
Contradiction

Hinge

Volta

Pace
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Can't get sick

Can't be combined

Not immunized
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?
It lives underground and is blind

It is can't sing

It is mortal

It is black
8 Most of the poem is written in iambic pentameter, but "Yet do" (accented on the first syllable) is an example of a:
Meter

Form

Spondee

Trochee
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:
If He dribbled

If He wanted to explain

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He leaned down
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?
Biological

Theological

Mythological

Entomological

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