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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
7

3

10

6
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1977

1972

1985

1989
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic

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

Complete a crossword puzzle

Go out with friend

Go to church
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
The eternity of it

Feeling nothing

Making his loved ones sad

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

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem set at night

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

ABBA

ABAB

ABCB
8 After whose death did Larkin resume writing "Aubade"?
His father's

His girlfriend's

His mother's

His sister'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

Romantic love

Death
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Judaism

Christianity

Buddhism

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

Teachers

Doctors

Death
13 Besides being a writer, what did Larkin work as?
A doctor

A teacher

A policeman

A librarian
14 At what age did Larkin die?
63

55

47

72
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"furnace-fear"

"to hold and horrify"

"intricate rented world"

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

The speaker's school

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's place of work
17 What is an example of a simile?
"Meanwhile telephones crouch"

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

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

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

Gloomy

Playful

Romantic
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He's comforted by both

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He objects to both

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?
Metaphor

Simile

Onomatopoeia

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

Pink

White

Blue
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?
4 am

10 am

6 am

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

"Of dying, and being dead"

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