Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Free verse

Sonnet

Villanelle

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

Sisyphus

Prometheus

Tantalus

God
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?

Cruel

Impossible to understand

Greedy

Marvelous
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

Contradiction

Volta
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 is can't sing

It is black

It is mortal

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

Spondee

Meter

Form
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He dribbled

If He leaned down

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

Theological

Mythological

Biological

Entomological

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