Heroes (poem) Quizzes

Heroes (poem) Quiz

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets

Octaves
2 What was Hercules's final labor?

Catch and return Cerberus

Kill the Nemean lion

Journey to the underworld

Fight Apollo
3 Who is the speaker of the poem?

Aeneas

Virgil

Robert Creeley

Hercules
4 What scene from the Aeneid does Creeley depict?

The destruction of Troy

Achilles's battle with Hector

Ulysses' return home

Aeneas's journey to the Underworld
5 Who wrote the Aeneid?

Dante

Virgil

Homer

Shakespeare
6 What is the meter of the poem?

Iambic tetrameter

Free verse

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter
7 Which of the following is a main theme of the poem?

Heroism

Animal cruelty

War

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

"Deeds, not words"

"Therein lies the difficulty"

"Nothing comes from nothing"

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

Determination

Valor

Strength

Humanness
10 How many labors was Hercules assigned?

Five

Two

Ten

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 mocking Aeneas

By saying his poetry is bad

By saying he has never read his work

By saying he is long dead
14 Who is Aeneas trying to see in the underworld?

His father

Hercules

Virgil

Achilles
15 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?

Solemn

Reverent

Thoughtful but harsh

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

Hercules died after completing his tasks

Poets should write about death more often

Mortality can push heroes into action
17 Who is Aeneas's guide into the underworld?

Charon

Cerberus

Sibyl

Dido
18 What is the genre of the poem?

Sea shanty

Ekphrasis

Pastoral poetry

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

The city of Rome

The destruction of Troy

Hercules' capture of Cerberus

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

Because it shows him being afraid

Because it shows him being lost

Because it shows him missing his father

Because it shows him being vulnerable and mortal
21 Who is the guardian of the underworld?

Apollo

Cerberus

The king of Mycanae

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

Ulysses

Aeneas

Sibyl

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

To align himself with a certain poetic tradition

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

To mock himself

To challenge Virgil's authority over hero narratives
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?

Charles Olson

Emily Dickinson

Virgil

Dante

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