The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?
Australian

dramatic

flowery

bony
2 What does "chiaroscuro" mean?
religious prediction

a small songbird

a winged seed

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

a winged seed

religious prediction

a small songbird
4 What song does Limón allude to?
Yankee Doodle

Paradise

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

The Star-Spangled Banner
5 Which of the following is NOT a type of language used in this poem?
biological terminology

videoconference troubleshooting

sports jargon

religious allusion
6 How is the farmer described?
faithful

American

certain

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

father

brother

child
8 What is on the dresser?
plant buds

locks of hair

the gun

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

frozen

brutal

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

sycamore

maple

sunflower
11 What things are "not forgetting"?
our father and faith

god and our father

skin and god

the acquaintance and the gun
12 Which emotion word gets repeated twice within three lines?
longing

desperate

weary

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

I am here

I cannot see you

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

ease

worries

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

the chickadee

her pet

her child
16 How many sentences is this poem?
22

none

1

5
17 How many stanzas is this poem?
none

2

1

22
18 What is the term for a poem about poetry?
modernist poem

ars poetica

poetic refrain

chiaroscuro
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?
enjambment

simile

repetition

alliteration
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?
as the only poem

as the first poem

as an endnote

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

Marianne Moore

Robert Pinsky

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

biologist

podcasting

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

revision

poetry

touch

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