Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Villanelle

Sonnet

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

Tantalus

Sisyphus

Prometheus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Greedy

Cruel

Impossible to understand

Marvelous
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
Sisyphus' hill

Where God dwells

The place where Tantalus is trapped

The road to poetic fame
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?
Hinge

Volta

Contradiction

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

Not immunized

Can't get sick

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 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:
Meter

Spondee

Form

Trochee
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:
If He leaned down

If He dribbled

If He wanted to explain

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

Biological

Entomological

Theological

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