Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Sonnet

Free verse

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

Tantalus

Prometheus

God
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Cruel

Greedy

Impossible to understand

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

The road to poetic fame

Sisyphus' hill

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

Volta

Pace

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

Not immunized

Can't get sick

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 black

It is mortal
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

Spondee

Form
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:
If He wanted to explain

If He dribbled

If He leaned down

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

Biological

Theological

Entomological

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