Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Sonnet

Haiku

Villanelle
2 Which of the following entities does not appear in the poem?
Prometheus

God

Tantalus

Sisyphus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Cruel

Marvelous

Impossible to understand

Greedy
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?
Pace

Volta

Hinge

Contradiction
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Can't be combined

Not immunized

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

It is can't sing

It lives underground and is blind

It is mortal
8 Most of the poem is written in iambic pentameter, but "Yet do" (accented on the first syllable) is an example of a:
Meter

Trochee

Form

Spondee
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:
If He wanted to explain

If He leaned down

If He dribbled

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

Entomological

Biological

Mythological

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