The End of Poetry Quizzes

The End of Poetry Quiz

1 What does "osseous" mean?
Australian

flowery

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 small songbird

contrast of light and dark

religious prediction

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?
videoconference troubleshooting

sports jargon

religious allusion

biological terminology
6 How is the farmer described?
faithful

certain

stoic

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

father

mother

brother
8 What is on the dresser?
the gun

locks of hair

plant buds

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

willful

brutal

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

sycamore

maple

sunflower
11 What things are "not forgetting"?
skin and god

the acquaintance and the gun

god and our father

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

longing

sorrowful

desperate
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 ______"
ease

sorrow

animals

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

the vaccine

her pet

her child
16 How many sentences is this poem?
1

22

5

none
17 How many stanzas is this poem?
2

1

none

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

chiaroscuro

poetic refrain

modernist poem
19 During what world event was this poem written?
The Iraq War

The COVID pandemic

World War II

The Spanish flu pandemic
20 What book contains this poem?
Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind

The Carrying

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

repetition

enjambment

simile
22 Where is this poem positioned in its book?
as the first poem

as an endnote

as the only poem

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

Wallace Stevens

Horace

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

marketing

biologist

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

poetry

failure

touch

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