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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
3

7

10

6
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1989

1972

1985

1977
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Anapestic

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

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

Work and get drunk

Go to church

Complete a crossword puzzle
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
Feeling nothing

It coming randomly

Making his loved ones sad

The eternity of it
6 What is an aubade?
A poem set at night

A poem about religion

A poem about death

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

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB
8 After whose death did Larkin resume writing "Aubade"?
His father's

His mother's

His sister's

His girlfriend's
9 What is a brocade?
A type of fabric

A type of bag

A type of jewelry

A type of clothing
10 What is NOT a theme of Aubade?
Romantic love

Religion

Death

Isolation
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Buddhism

Judaism

Christianity

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

Writers

Doctors

Teachers
13 Besides being a writer, what did Larkin work as?
A doctor

A librarian

A teacher

A policeman
14 At what age did Larkin die?
72

55

47

63
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"furnace-fear"

"to hold and horrify"

"intricate rented world"

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

The speaker's school

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's friend's house
17 What is an example of a simile?
"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

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

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"
18 Which word best describes the tone of the poem?
Playful

Gloomy

Romantic

Joyful
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He's comforted by both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

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

Confidence

Anxiety

Happiness
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Metaphor

Simile

Onomatopoeia

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

Blue

Gray

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

Love

Science

Death
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"

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

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

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

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