Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Haiku

Sonnet

Villanelle

Free verse
2 Which of the following entities does not appear in the poem?

Prometheus

Tantalus

Sisyphus

God
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?

Marvelous

Impossible to understand

Cruel

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

Sisyphus' hill

The place where Tantalus is trapped

Where God dwells

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

Contradiction

Pace

Hinge

Volta
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?

Can't get sick

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Not immunized

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

It is can't sing

It is mortal

It is black

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

Form

Meter

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

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He wanted to explain

If He dribbled

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

Theological

Mythological

Entomological

Biological

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