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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?

7

10

3

6
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?

1985

1977

1989

1972
3 What is the poem’s general meter?

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic

Iambic tetrameter

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

Go to church

Work and get drunk

Complete a crossword puzzle

Go out with friend
5 What worries the speaker most about death?

Feeling nothing

The eternity of it

It coming randomly

Making his loved ones sad
6 What is an aubade?

A poem set at night

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem about death

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

ABCB

ABAB

ABABCCDEED

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

His mother's

His girlfriend's

His father'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?

Religion

Death

Isolation

Romantic love
11 What religion did Larkin follow?

None

Judaism

Buddhism

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

Doctors

Writers

Death

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

A teacher

A librarian

A policeman

A doctor
14 At what age did Larkin die?

55

47

63

72
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?

"to hold and horrify"

"intricate rented world"

"furnace-fear"

"whined at than withstood"
16 Where is the poem set?

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's school

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's friend's house
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?

Playful

Romantic

Gloomy

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

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He objects to both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

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

Courage

Confidence

Anxiety

Happiness
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?

Simile

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

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

Love

Religion
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?

8 am

6 am

4 am

10 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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