The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?

dramatic

bony

flowery

Australian
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?

a small songbird

a winged seed

contrast of light and dark

religious prediction
3 What does "samara" mean?

a small songbird

religious prediction

contrast of light and dark

a winged seed
4 What song does Limón allude to?

Paradise

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

The Star-Spangled Banner

Yankee Doodle
5 Which of the following is NOT a type of language used in this poem?

sports jargon

religious allusion

videoconference troubleshooting

biological terminology
6 How is the farmer described?

certain

faithful

stoic

American
7 Which family role is NOT mentioned in this poem?

child

mother

brother

father
8 What is on the dresser?

plant buds

a letter

the gun

locks of hair
9 What adjective is most closely paired with "the border"?

willful

desperate

brutal

frozen
10 Which of the following species is NOT named in this poem?

chickadee

maple

sunflower

sycamore
11 What things are "not forgetting"?

our father and faith

god and our father

the acquaintance and the gun

skin and god
12 Which emotion word gets repeated twice within three lines?

weary

longing

desperate

sorrowful
13 What does the speaker say before "I am alone and I am desperate"?

I cannot see you

I am here

I am asking you to touch me

I am human
14 "Enough of the air and its ______"

ease

animals

sorrow

worries
15 What is the poet most likely referring to by "the animal saving me"

her pet

the vaccine

her child

the chickadee
16 How many sentences is this poem?

22

5

1

none
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

22

2

none

1
18 What is the term for a poem about poetry?

poetic refrain

chiaroscuro

modernist poem

ars poetica
19 During what world event was this poem written?

World War II

The Iraq War

The COVID pandemic

The Spanish flu pandemic
20 What book contains this poem?

Bright Dead Things

The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind
21 Which of the following literary techniques does NOT feature prominently in this poem?

simile

repetition

alliteration

enjambment
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?

as the only poem

as an endnote

as the last poem

as the first poem
23 Who wrote "I too, dislike it"?

Horace

Robert Pinsky

Marianne Moore

Wallace Stevens
24 Which of the following roles has Ada Limón NOT held?

biologist

marketing

podcasting

Poet Laureate
25 Ada Limón said in an interview with Vanity Fair that "all writing is basically ______"

revision

touch

failure

poetry

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