Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
biting their tongue

turning their heads away

rolling their eyes

plugging their ears
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?
knife

why

white

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

a reward

a role in a play

a punishment
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Judy Brady

Octavia Butler
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
I Want A Wife

A Room of One's Own

Kindred

Sense and Sensibility
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?
fishwife

housewife

bad wife

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

journaling in the yard

crying

tearing the earth
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a roar of fire

a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

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

admonished

diminished

invalidated
10 The single girls say that their friend's upcoming trip is "not _________"
child-inclusive

respectful

wife-approved

feminist
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
fixing

crying

grieving

writing
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?
the husband

the famous feminist

the reader

the single girls
13 What does the speaker worry she "isn't good at"?
writing her poems

saying the word wife

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?
verbs

adjectives

sounds

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

the second half is all one long sentence

the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is less feminist
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
4

2

1

24
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is also a highly successful scientist

She is a full-time poet

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is unmarried
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
the natural world

domestic labor

astronomy

machinery and weapons
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of the United States

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Wife
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?
marketing executive

horse jockey

podcast host

schoolteacher
22 What is this poem's form?
Epic

Sonnet

Free verse

Prose poem
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?
humorous to angry

hopeless to ambitious

serious to ironic

critical to vulnerable
24 Which award did this book win?
The Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Guggenheim Fellowship
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?
phew

woosh

zing

whiff

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