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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
10

6

3

7
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1985

1989

1977

1972
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Anapestic

Trochaic

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Go out with friend

Complete a crossword puzzle

Work and get drunk

Go to church
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
It coming randomly

Making his loved ones sad

The eternity of it

Feeling nothing
6 What is an aubade?
A poem about death

A poem set at night

A poem about religion

A poem set in dawn or early morning
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABCCDEED

ABCB

ABAB

ABBA
8 After whose death did Larkin resume writing "Aubade"?
His mother's

His sister's

His girlfriend's

His father's
9 What is a brocade?
A type of clothing

A type of fabric

A type of jewelry

A type of bag
10 What is NOT a theme of Aubade?
Death

Religion

Romantic love

Isolation
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Christianity

Judaism

Buddhism

None
12 What is does Larkin compare postmen to in the last line?
Teachers

Doctors

Death

Writers
13 Besides being a writer, what did Larkin work as?
A teacher

A librarian

A doctor

A policeman
14 At what age did Larkin die?
63

47

55

72
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"intricate rented world"

"furnace-fear"

"to hold and horrify"

"whined at than withstood"
16 Where is the poem set?
The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's school

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's bedroom
17 What is an example of a simile?
"An only life can take so long to climb/Clear of its wrong beginnings"

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"
18 Which word best describes the tone of the poem?
Joyful

Romantic

Gloomy

Playful
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He objects to both

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He's comforted by both
20 To the speaker, what "means not scaring others"?
Happiness

Courage

Confidence

Anxiety
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration
22 What color is the sky in the final verse?
Blue

White

Pink

Gray
23 What does the speaker describe as a "vast moth-eaten musical brocade"?
Science

Religion

Death

Love
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?
4 am

8 am

10 am

6 am
25 What line is NOT an example of iambic pentameter?
"Of dying, and being dead"

"The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse"

"Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing"

"And so it stays just on the edge of vision"

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