Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1970

1966

1967

1959
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?
Song of Songs

Psalms

Epistle of James

The Book of Genesis
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?
Angels

The original humans

Snakes

Children of Mary
4 Who is Eve addressing?
Her daughters: modern women

Adam

All her children

Abel and Cain
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"
who endured

who began it

who started it

who should be blamed
6 Which best describes Eve's tone in the poem?
Ancient, divine, judgemental

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Informal, ironic, logical

Relatable, wrathful, reflective
7 What is the meter?
Free verse

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

Ballad
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?
Adam

Eve

The children

The couple
9 Define "draughty."
Cold and uncomfortable

Warm and moist

A kind of laughter

Misbehaving
10 What does the phrase "not unhappy" suggest?
Adam struggled to make their earthly life livable. The best he could do was feel "not unhappy"

Adam and Eve both struggled to adapt to life on earth

A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy

This double negative suggests hesitation and confusion, perhaps suggesting that Eve feels the opposite
11 Why might the poem use little to no metaphor or simile?
Wright dislikes using metaphors.

Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.

The language remains straightforward and gives an edge of modernity and irony.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

Faults of character are the only real thing.

What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?
Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

Faults of character are not real.

Adam is faultless and worthy of following.

The same as Adam's.
14 Whose logic does Eve use to negate Adam in the final stanza?
Her own

Both hers and his

None

His own
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?
Eve feels passionately about her husband.

Eve will always follow her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?
Adam and Eve

Divine figures

Adam and Eve's children

The other humans
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
I repent my ways,

You can see how his pride had been hurt.

Then you cook.

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).
18 Which are examples of modern jargon that express the values in certain modern societies?
Yes, he got to the centre where nothing at all can be demonstrated.

God and the Other

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,
19 Who is "the Other"?
Eve

God

Most likely Satan

Adam
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?
A propensity to speak up

Eve's rebellious nature

Eve's own faults of character

Eve's beauty
21 What does Eve say that faults of character have?
A destructive nature

Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

Their own logic

A life of their own
22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?
None

Proud because Eve is their mother.

Ironic because their story ended in murder.

True and transparent.
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?
He has turned himself into God,

Faults of character have their own logic

It was not I who began it.

for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?
"In the process..."

"It was not I..."

"But you are my daughters..."

"You see, he..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?
That he realized his hubris and set to work fixing the problems on earth.

You see, he had always been jealous.

He has turned himself into God, who is faultless, and doesn’t exist.

You see, he was always an egotist.

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