Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Haiku

Villanelle

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

God

Sisyphus

Prometheus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Marvelous

Cruel

Greedy

Impossible to understand
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
Sisyphus' hill

The road to poetic fame

The place where Tantalus is trapped

Where God dwells
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?
Volta

Pace

Hinge

Contradiction
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Can't get sick

Not immunized

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Can't be combined
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:
Trochee

Form

Spondee

Meter
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:
If He leaned down

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He dribbled

If He wanted to explain
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?
Entomological

Theological

Biological

Mythological

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