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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?

10

7

6

3
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?

1985

1977

1989

1972
3 What is the poem’s general meter?

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic

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

Go to church

Work and get drunk

Go out with friend

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

Making his loved ones sad

Feeling nothing

The eternity of it

It coming randomly
6 What is an aubade?

A poem set at night

A poem about religion

A poem set in dawn or early morning

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

ABCB

ABABCCDEED

ABBA

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

His girlfriend's

His mother's

His sister's

His father's
9 What is a brocade?

A type of clothing

A type of jewelry

A type of bag

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

Religion

Death

Isolation

Romantic love
11 What religion did Larkin follow?

Judaism

None

Buddhism

Christianity
12 What is does Larkin compare postmen to in the last line?

Teachers

Death

Writers

Doctors
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

72

55

47
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?

"furnace-fear"

"whined at than withstood"

"intricate rented world"

"to hold and horrify"
16 Where is the poem set?

The speaker's school

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's friend's house

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

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

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

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"
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 believes in religion, but not rationalism

He's comforted by both

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

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

Confidence

Anxiety

Happiness

Courage
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?

Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration

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

Pink

Blue

White

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

Religion

Science

Death

Love
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?

10 am

4 am

6 am

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

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

"Of dying, and being dead"

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

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

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