Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Villanelle

Sonnet

Free verse

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

God

Sisyphus

Prometheus

Tantalus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?

Impossible to understand

Marvelous

Greedy

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

Where God dwells

Sisyphus' hill

The road to poetic fame

The place where Tantalus is trapped
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?

Contradiction

Volta

Pace

Hinge
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?

Not immunized

Can't be combined

Can't get sick

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

It is mortal

It lives underground and is blind

It is can't sing

It is black
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 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?

Theological

Entomological

Mythological

Biological

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