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?
Sisyphus

Prometheus

God

Tantalus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Impossible to understand

Greedy

Cruel

Marvelous
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?
Hinge

Volta

Pace

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

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Can't be combined

Not immunized
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:
Spondee

Trochee

Form

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

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He leaned down

If He dribbled
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?
Entomological

Theological

Mythological

Biological

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