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?

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?

The road to poetic fame

Sisyphus' hill

Where God dwells

The place where Tantalus is trapped
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?

Hinge

Pace

Volta

Contradiction
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Not immunized

Can't be combined

Can't get sick
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?

It is black

It is mortal

It lives underground and is blind

It is can't sing
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 leaned down

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He wanted to explain

If He dribbled
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?

Theological

Entomological

Biological

Mythological

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