Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Haiku

Sonnet

Villanelle
2 Which of the following entities does not appear in the poem?
Sisyphus

Tantalus

God

Prometheus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Cruel

Greedy

Marvelous

Impossible to understand
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
Where God dwells

The place where Tantalus is trapped

Sisyphus' hill

The road to poetic fame
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?
Pace

Hinge

Volta

Contradiction
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Can't be combined

Can't get sick

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Not immunized
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?
It is can't sing

It is mortal

It is black

It lives underground and is blind
8 Most of the poem is written in iambic pentameter, but "Yet do" (accented on the first syllable) is an example of a:
Trochee

Meter

Form

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

If He wanted to explain

If He leaned down

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?
Entomological

Theological

Biological

Mythological

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