The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?

bony

Australian

dramatic

flowery
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?

a winged seed

religious prediction

a small songbird

contrast of light and dark
3 What does "samara" mean?

contrast of light and dark

religious prediction

a winged seed

a small songbird
4 What song does Limón allude to?

Yankee Doodle

Paradise

The Star-Spangled Banner

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)
5 Which of the following is NOT a type of language used in this poem?

religious allusion

sports jargon

videoconference troubleshooting

biological terminology
6 How is the farmer described?

American

stoic

certain

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

father

child

mother

brother
8 What is on the dresser?

locks of hair

a letter

plant buds

the gun
9 What adjective is most closely paired with "the border"?

frozen

willful

brutal

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

maple

chickadee

sunflower

sycamore
11 What things are "not forgetting"?

skin and god

our father and faith

the acquaintance and the gun

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

weary

sorrowful

desperate

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

I am here

I am human

I cannot see you

I am asking you to touch me
14 "Enough of the air and its ______"

worries

sorrow

animals

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

her pet

the vaccine

the chickadee

her child
16 How many sentences is this poem?

none

5

1

22
17 How many stanzas is this poem?

1

22

none

2
18 What is the term for a poem about poetry?

ars poetica

modernist poem

chiaroscuro

poetic refrain
19 During what world event was this poem written?

World War II

The Spanish flu pandemic

The Iraq War

The COVID pandemic
20 What book contains this poem?

The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers

Bright Dead Things

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

repetition

simile

alliteration

enjambment
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?

as the only poem

as an endnote

as the first poem

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

Robert Pinsky

Horace

Marianne Moore

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

biologist

podcasting

marketing

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

poetry

revision

touch

failure

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