Heroes (poem) Quizzes

Heroes (poem) Quiz

1 What type of stanzas is the poem made up of?

Quatrains

Octaves

Couplets

Sestets
2 What was Hercules's final labor?

Fight Apollo

Journey to the underworld

Catch and return Cerberus

Kill the Nemean lion
3 Who is the speaker of the poem?

Robert Creeley

Aeneas

Hercules

Virgil
4 What scene from the Aeneid does Creeley depict?

Aeneas's journey to the Underworld

The destruction of Troy

Ulysses' return home

Achilles's battle with Hector
5 Who wrote the Aeneid?

Shakespeare

Dante

Virgil

Homer
6 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter
7 Which of the following is a main theme of the poem?

History

Animal cruelty

Heroism

War
8 What does the Latin quote "hoc opus, hic labor est" mean?

"Therein lies the difficulty"

"Deeds, not words"

"Nothing comes from nothing"

"That is the task, that is the labor"
9 What quality does Creeley prize in hero narratives?

Humanness

Determination

Valor

Strength
10 How many labors was Hercules assigned?

Ten

Two

Five

Twelve
11 When was the poem published?

1960

1950

1975

1965
12 What literary movement was Robert Creeley associated with?

The Beat Generation

The New York School

The Imagists

The Black Mountain poets
13 How does Creeley subtly criticize Virgil?

By saying his poetry is bad

By saying he is long dead

By saying he has never read his work

By mocking Aeneas
14 Who is Aeneas trying to see in the underworld?

Virgil

Hercules

His father

Achilles
15 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?

Solemn

Thoughtful but harsh

Reverent

Respectful but critical
16 What is the meaning of the line "death also / can still propose the old labors" in the poem?

Mortality forces people into dull labor

Mortality can push heroes into action

Hercules died after completing his tasks

Poets should write about death more often
17 Who is Aeneas's guide into the underworld?

Cerberus

Sibyl

Charon

Dido
18 What is the genre of the poem?

Pastoral poetry

Ekphrasis

Sea shanty

Heroic poetry
19 What does Aeneas's father have a vision of?

The destruction of Troy

Aeneas' death

Hercules' capture of Cerberus

The city of Rome
20 Why does Creeley single out Aeneas's trip to the underworld as the moment of "humanness" in the Aeneid?

Because it shows him missing his father

Because it shows him being lost

Because it shows him being vulnerable and mortal

Because it shows him being afraid
21 Who is the guardian of the underworld?

Apollo

The king of Mycanae

Cerberus

The Nimean lion
22 Which of the following figures is NOT referenced in the poem?

Sibyl

Ulysses

Hercules

Aeneas
23 Why does Creeley say he is the speaker of the poem and then mention Virgil?

To place his own work in the same category as Virgil's

To mock himself

To challenge Virgil's authority over hero narratives

To align himself with a certain poetic tradition
24 What collection was the poem first published in?

For Love

If You

The Island

5 Numbers
25 Which of the following poets was a noted contemporary of Creeley's?

Virgil

Dante

Emily Dickinson

Charles Olson

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