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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
10

6

7

3
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1989

1972

1985

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

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic

Iambic pentameter
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

It coming randomly

The eternity of it
6 What is an aubade?
A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem set at night

A poem about death

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

ABBA

ABCB

ABABCCDEED
8 After whose death did Larkin resume writing "Aubade"?
His girlfriend's

His father's

His mother's

His sister's
9 What is a brocade?
A type of bag

A type of jewelry

A type of clothing

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

Romantic love

Isolation

Religion
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Judaism

None

Christianity

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

Teachers

Writers

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

A doctor

A teacher

A policeman
14 At what age did Larkin die?
63

55

47

72
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 bedroom

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's friend's house

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

Joyful

Playful

Romantic
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He's comforted by both

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

Happiness

Anxiety

Confidence
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Simile

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

Pink

Blue

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

Death

Love

Religion
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?
4 am

6 am

8 am

10 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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