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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?

7

10

6

3
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?

1972

1977

1985

1989
3 What is the poem’s general meter?

Anapestic

Trochaic

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?

Go to church

Go out with friend

Work and get drunk

Complete a crossword puzzle
5 What worries the speaker most about death?

Making his loved ones sad

It coming randomly

The eternity of it

Feeling nothing
6 What is an aubade?

A poem about religion

A poem about death

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem set at night
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABCB

ABBA

ABAB

ABABCCDEED
8 After whose death did Larkin resume writing "Aubade"?

His father's

His mother's

His girlfriend's

His sister's
9 What is a brocade?

A type of jewelry

A type of bag

A type of clothing

A type of fabric
10 What is NOT a theme of Aubade?

Romantic love

Isolation

Religion

Death
11 What religion did Larkin follow?

Christianity

Judaism

Buddhism

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

Doctors

Death

Teachers

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

A policeman

A doctor

A teacher

A librarian
14 At what age did Larkin die?

47

55

63

72
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?

"to hold and horrify"

"furnace-fear"

"whined at than withstood"

"intricate rented world"
16 Where is the poem set?

The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's school

The speaker's place of work
17 What is an example of a simile?

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

"An only life can take so long to climb/Clear of its wrong beginnings"

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

Playful

Joyful

Romantic

Gloomy
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He's comforted by both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He objects to both
20 To the speaker, what "means not scaring others"?

Happiness

Confidence

Courage

Anxiety
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Simile

Metaphor
22 What color is the sky in the final verse?

White

Pink

Blue

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

Death

Science

Religion

Love
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?

10 am

4 am

8 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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