Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?

rolling their eyes

turning their heads away

plugging their ears

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

white

life

knife

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

a punishment

a role in a play

a reward

a job
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?

Virginia Woolf

Judy Brady

Octavia Butler

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

Sense and Sensibility

Kindred

A Room of One's Own

I Want A Wife
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?

crying

journaling in the yard

tearing the earth

staring
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 _______"

invalidated

admonished

erased

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

wife-approved

respectful

feminist

child-inclusive
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"

grieving

writing

fixing

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

the famous feminist

the reader

the single girls

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

writing her poems

saying the word wife

fighting the patriarchy

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

adjectives

sounds

verbs

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 is less feminist

the second half introduces a "you"
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?

4

2

24

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is unmarried

She is also a highly successful scientist

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

domestic labor

machinery and weapons

astronomy

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?

schoolteacher

horse jockey

podcast host

marketing executive
22 What is this poem's form?

Sonnet

Epic

Prose poem

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

serious to ironic

critical to vulnerable

hopeless to ambitious

humorous to angry
24 Which award did this book win?

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Critics Circle Award
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?

phew

woosh

whiff

zing

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