Heroes (poem) Quizzes

Heroes (poem) Quiz

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets
2 What was Hercules's final labor?
Catch and return Cerberus

Kill the Nemean lion

Fight Apollo

Journey to the underworld
3 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Robert Creeley

Virgil

Aeneas

Hercules
4 What scene from the Aeneid does Creeley depict?
The destruction of Troy

Ulysses' return home

Aeneas's journey to the Underworld

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

Homer

Virgil

Dante
6 What is the meter of the poem?
Dactylic hexameter

Free verse

Iambic tetrameter

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

War

History

Animal cruelty
8 What does the Latin quote "hoc opus, hic labor est" mean?
"Deeds, not words"

"That is the task, that is the labor"

"Therein lies the difficulty"

"Nothing comes from nothing"
9 What quality does Creeley prize in hero narratives?
Valor

Humanness

Determination

Strength
10 How many labors was Hercules assigned?
Twelve

Ten

Five

Two
11 When was the poem published?
1965

1950

1960

1975
12 What literary movement was Robert Creeley associated with?
The New York School

The Imagists

The Beat Generation

The Black Mountain poets
13 How does Creeley subtly criticize Virgil?
By saying his poetry is bad

By mocking Aeneas

By saying he is long dead

By saying he has never read his work
14 Who is Aeneas trying to see in the underworld?
Virgil

Achilles

Hercules

His father
15 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Respectful but critical

Thoughtful but harsh

Reverent

Solemn
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

Dido

Sibyl

Cerberus
18 What is the genre of the poem?
Sea shanty

Pastoral poetry

Heroic poetry

Ekphrasis
19 What does Aeneas's father have a vision of?
Hercules' capture of Cerberus

The destruction of Troy

The city of Rome

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 lost

Because it shows him missing his father

Because it shows him being vulnerable and mortal

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

Apollo

The Nimean lion

The king of Mycanae
22 Which of the following figures is NOT referenced in the poem?
Aeneas

Hercules

Sibyl

Ulysses
23 Why does Creeley say he is the speaker of the poem and then mention Virgil?
To challenge Virgil's authority over hero narratives

To mock himself

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

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

5 Numbers

For Love

If You
25 Which of the following poets was a noted contemporary of Creeley's?
Dante

Charles Olson

Virgil

Emily Dickinson

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