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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?
1977

1989

1985

1972
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Trochaic

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Work and get drunk

Go to church

Go out with friend

Complete a crossword puzzle
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
The eternity of it

Making his loved ones sad

Feeling nothing

It coming randomly
6 What is an aubade?
A poem about religion

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem about death

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

ABAB

ABBA

ABCB
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 jewelry

A type of clothing

A type of bag

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

Romantic love

Religion

Isolation
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Judaism

None

Christianity

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

Teachers

Doctors

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

A doctor

A librarian

A policeman
14 At what age did Larkin die?
47

55

63

72
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"intricate rented world"

"furnace-fear"

"to hold and horrify"

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

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's bedroom

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

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"
18 Which word best describes the tone of the poem?
Gloomy

Playful

Joyful

Romantic
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"?
Confidence

Anxiety

Courage

Happiness
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Simile

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

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

Gray

White

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

Science

Love

Death
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?
10 am

8 am

4 am

6 am
25 What line is NOT an example of iambic pentameter?
"Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing"

"Of dying, and being dead"

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

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

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