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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?

6

7

10

3
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?

1989

1985

1972

1977
3 What is the poem’s general meter?

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic

Trochaic
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?

Complete a crossword puzzle

Go out with friend

Go to church

Work and get drunk
5 What worries the speaker most about death?

It coming randomly

The eternity of it

Feeling nothing

Making his loved ones sad
6 What is an aubade?

A poem about religion

A poem set at night

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem about death
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABABCCDEED

ABCB

ABBA

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

His mother's

His girlfriend's

His sister's

His father's
9 What is a brocade?

A type of bag

A type of clothing

A type of fabric

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

Religion

Isolation

Death

Romantic love
11 What religion did Larkin follow?

Buddhism

Judaism

Christianity

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

Teachers

Writers

Death

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

A policeman

A teacher

A librarian

A doctor
14 At what age did Larkin die?

47

72

55

63
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?

"whined at than withstood"

"to hold and horrify"

"furnace-fear"

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

The speaker's school

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's friend's house
17 What is an example of a simile?

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

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

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

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

Romantic

Playful

Joyful

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

He's comforted by both

He objects to both

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He believes in religion, but not rationalism
20 To the speaker, what "means not scaring others"?

Anxiety

Confidence

Happiness

Courage
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?

Simile

Alliteration

Metaphor

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

Pink

Gray

White

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

Love

Death

Science

Religion
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?

4 am

6 am

10 am

8 am
25 What line is NOT an example of iambic pentameter?

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

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

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

"Of dying, and being dead"

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