Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1967

1966

1970

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

The Book of Genesis

Psalms

Epistle of James
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?
The original humans

Snakes

Children of Mary

Angels
4 Who is Eve addressing?
All her children

Abel and Cain

Adam

Her daughters: modern women
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"
who began it

who should be blamed

who started it

who endured
6 Which best describes Eve's tone in the poem?
Relatable, wrathful, reflective

Informal, ironic, logical

Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Ancient, divine, judgemental
7 What is the meter?
Ballad

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

Blank verse
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?
Adam

The couple

Eve

The children
9 Define "draughty."
Warm and moist

Cold and uncomfortable

Misbehaving

A kind of laughter
10 What does the phrase "not unhappy" suggest?
This double negative suggests hesitation and confusion, perhaps suggesting that Eve feels the opposite

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"
11 Why might the poem use little to no metaphor or simile?
The language remains straightforward and gives an edge of modernity and irony.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.

Wright dislikes using metaphors.

Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.

Faults of character are the only real thing.

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?
Faults of character are not real.

Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

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?
His own

None

Her own

Both hers and his
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?
Eve will always follow her husband.

Eve feels passionately about 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?
Divine figures

Adam and Eve's children

The other humans

Adam and Eve
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
Then you cook.

I repent my ways,

You can see how his pride had been hurt.

(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.

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,

God and the Other

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19 Who is "the Other"?
Eve

God

Adam

Most likely Satan
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?
Eve's own faults of character

Eve's rebellious nature

Eve's beauty

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

A life of their own

A destructive nature

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22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?
Ironic because their story ended in murder.

True and transparent.

None

Proud because Eve is their mother.
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?
for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over

Faults of character have their own logic

He has turned himself into God,

It was not I who began it.
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?
"But you are my daughters..."

"In the process..."

"It was not I..."

"You see, he..."
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.

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

You see, he had always been jealous.

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