The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?
flowery

Australian

bony

dramatic
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?
a small songbird

a winged seed

religious prediction

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

contrast of light and dark

a small songbird

religious prediction
4 What song does Limón allude to?
Paradise

Yankee Doodle

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?
videoconference troubleshooting

biological terminology

sports jargon

religious allusion
6 How is the farmer described?
stoic

faithful

certain

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

brother

child

father
8 What is on the dresser?
locks of hair

the gun

plant buds

a letter
9 What adjective is most closely paired with "the border"?
brutal

desperate

frozen

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

sycamore

maple

chickadee
11 What things are "not forgetting"?
god and our father

our father and faith

the acquaintance and the gun

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

weary

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

ease

animals

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

her child

her pet

the vaccine
16 How many sentences is this poem?
5

22

none

1
17 How many stanzas is this poem?
1

22

none

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

modernist poem

ars poetica

poetic refrain
19 During what world event was this poem written?
The Spanish flu pandemic

The COVID pandemic

The Iraq War

World War II
20 What book contains this poem?
The Hurting Kind

The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers

Bright Dead Things
21 Which of the following literary techniques does NOT feature prominently in this poem?
alliteration

repetition

simile

enjambment
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?
as the last poem

as the only poem

as an endnote

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

Wallace Stevens

Marianne Moore

Horace
24 Which of the following roles has Ada Limón NOT held?
podcasting

marketing

biologist

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

touch

failure

revision

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