Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Free verse

Haiku

Sonnet

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

Sisyphus

God

Tantalus

Prometheus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?

Marvelous

Cruel

Impossible to understand

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

Where God dwells

The road to poetic fame

The place where Tantalus is trapped

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

Hinge

Contradiction

Volta

Pace
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?

Not immunized

Can't get sick

Can't be combined

Can't merely be memorized and repeated
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?

It is can't sing

It is black

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:

Trochee

Form

Meter

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

If He leaned down

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He dribbled

If He wanted to explain
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?

Mythological

Biological

Entomological

Theological

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