Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?

1959

1967

1966

1970
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?

Epistle of James

The Book of Genesis

Song of Songs

Psalms
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?

The original humans

Snakes

Children of Mary

Angels
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 should be blamed

who started it

who endured

who began it
6 Which best describes Eve's tone in the poem?

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Informal, ironic, logical

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Relatable, wrathful, reflective
7 What is the meter?

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Ballad

Blank verse
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?

Adam

Eve

The couple

The children
9 Define "draughty."

Misbehaving

A kind of laughter

Warm and moist

Cold and uncomfortable
10 What does the phrase "not unhappy" suggest?

A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy

Adam and Eve both struggled to adapt to life on earth

Adam struggled to make their earthly life livable. The best he could do was feel "not unhappy"

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?

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

The language remains straightforward and gives an edge of modernity and irony.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.

Wright dislikes using metaphors.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.

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.

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t 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

His own

Both hers and his

None
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?

Eve will always follow her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

Eve feels passionately about her husband.

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

Divine figures

Adam and Eve

The other humans

Adam and Eve's children
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?

You can see how his pride had been hurt.

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

I repent my ways,

Then you cook.
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.

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,

God and the Other

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19 Who is "the Other"?

Adam

Most likely Satan

God

Eve
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?

Eve's rebellious nature

Eve's beauty

Eve's own faults of character

A propensity to speak up
21 What does Eve say that faults of character have?

A life of their own

Their own logic

A destructive nature

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22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?

Proud because Eve is their mother.

True and transparent.

None

Ironic because their story ended in murder.
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?

for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over

He has turned himself into God,

Faults of character have their own logic

It was not I who began it.
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?

"You see, he..."

"It was not I..."

"In the process..."

"But you are my daughters..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?

You see, he was always an egotist.

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.

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