Heroes (poem) Quizzes

Heroes (poem) Quiz

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

Octaves

Quatrains

Couplets
2 What was Hercules's final labor?
Kill the Nemean lion

Catch and return Cerberus

Fight Apollo

Journey to the underworld
3 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Hercules

Robert Creeley

Aeneas

Virgil
4 What scene from the Aeneid does Creeley depict?
Achilles's battle with Hector

Aeneas's journey to the Underworld

Ulysses' return home

The destruction of Troy
5 Who wrote the Aeneid?
Virgil

Shakespeare

Homer

Dante
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?
Animal cruelty

Heroism

War

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

"That is the task, that is the labor"

"Nothing comes from nothing"

"Deeds, not words"
9 What quality does Creeley prize in hero narratives?
Determination

Humanness

Strength

Valor
10 How many labors was Hercules assigned?
Five

Two

Ten

Twelve
11 When was the poem published?
1960

1950

1965

1975
12 What literary movement was Robert Creeley associated with?
The Imagists

The New York School

The Black Mountain poets

The Beat Generation
13 How does Creeley subtly criticize Virgil?
By saying he is long dead

By mocking Aeneas

By saying his poetry is bad

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

His father

Hercules

Achilles
15 What best characterizes the tone of the poem?
Thoughtful but harsh

Solemn

Respectful but critical

Reverent
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

Poets should write about death more often

Hercules died after completing his tasks

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?
Ekphrasis

Sea shanty

Heroic poetry

Pastoral 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 lost

Because it shows him being vulnerable and mortal

Because it shows him missing his father

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

The Nimean lion

The king of Mycanae

Apollo
22 Which of the following figures is NOT referenced in the poem?
Ulysses

Hercules

Aeneas

Sibyl
23 Why does Creeley say he is the speaker of the poem and then mention Virgil?
To mock himself

To challenge Virgil's authority over hero narratives

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?
5 Numbers

The Island

If You

For Love
25 Which of the following poets was a noted contemporary of Creeley's?
Virgil

Emily Dickinson

Charles Olson

Dante

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