Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Villanelle

Haiku

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

Sisyphus

God

Prometheus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Marvelous

Impossible to understand

Greedy

Cruel
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
Where God dwells

The road to poetic fame

Sisyphus' hill

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

Volta

Hinge

Pace
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Can't be combined

Can't get sick

Not immunized

Can't merely be memorized and repeated
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?
It is mortal

It is black

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

Form

Spondee
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

Biological

Entomological

Mythological

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