Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?

turning their heads away

rolling their eyes

plugging their ears

biting their tongue
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?

life

white

knife

why
3 The speaker asks why being a wife sounds like ______

a job

a punishment

a role in a play

a reward
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?

Judy Brady

Octavia Butler

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen
5 What is the title of the quoted work?

I Want A Wife

Sense and Sensibility

A Room of One's Own

Kindred
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?

fishwife

good wife

housewife

bad wife
7 Which of the following does the speaker NOT describe herself doing?

crying

journaling in the yard

staring

tearing the earth
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?

the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire

a train whistle

the bark of a dog
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"

admonished

invalidated

erased

diminished
10 The single girls say that their friend's upcoming trip is "not _________"

feminist

child-inclusive

respectful

wife-approved
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"

writing

grieving

fixing

crying
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?

the single girls

the husband

the reader

the famous feminist
13 What does the speaker worry she "isn't good at"?

saying the word wife

writing her poems

loving her husband

fighting the patriarchy
14 What part of speech does the speaker use, five times in a row in lines 12-13, to describe a wife?

adjectives

sounds

nouns

verbs
15 Which of the following is NOT a way in which the poem's second half differs from the first?

the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half is all one long sentence

the second half is less feminist
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?

24

4

2

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is also a highly successful scientist

She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?

astronomy

domestic labor

machinery and weapons

the natural world
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?

Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Wife

Poet Laureate of the United States
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?

horse jockey

podcast host

marketing executive

schoolteacher
22 What is this poem's form?

Prose poem

Free verse

Sonnet

Epic
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?

humorous to angry

critical to vulnerable

serious to ironic

hopeless to ambitious
24 Which award did this book win?

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Pulitzer Prize

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?

woosh

phew

zing

whiff

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