Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Villanelle

Free verse

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

Tantalus

Prometheus

Sisyphus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Marvelous

Impossible to understand

Greedy

Cruel
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
The road to poetic fame

Where God dwells

The place where Tantalus is trapped

Sisyphus' hill
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?
Pace

Hinge

Contradiction

Volta
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Can't get sick

Not immunized

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Can't be combined
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?
It is black

It lives underground and is blind

It is mortal

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:
Meter

Spondee

Form

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

If He wanted to explain

If He dribbled

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

Biological

Entomological

Mythological

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