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

God

Prometheus

Tantalus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?

Cruel

Impossible to understand

Marvelous

Greedy
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?

The road to poetic fame

Sisyphus' hill

The place where Tantalus is trapped

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

Pace

Contradiction

Hinge

Volta
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 is can't sing

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:

Spondee

Trochee

Meter

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

If He dribbled

If He wanted to explain

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

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

Entomological

Mythological

Theological

Biological

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