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"?

life

white

knife

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

a reward

a punishment

a job

a role in a play
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?

Jane Austen

Virginia Woolf

Octavia Butler

Judy Brady
5 What is the title of the quoted work?

Sense and Sensibility

A Room of One's Own

Kindred

I Want A Wife
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?

good wife

fishwife

bad wife

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

journaling in the yard

crying

tearing the earth

staring
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?

a roar of fire

the shriek of truck tires

the bark of a dog

a train whistle
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"

diminished

admonished

erased

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

respectful

wife-approved

feminist

child-inclusive
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"

crying

fixing

grieving

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

the single girls

the reader

the famous feminist

the husband
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

verbs

nouns

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

the second half is less feminist

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half is all one long sentence

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

24

2

4

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?

The Carrying

Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind

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

She is also a highly successful scientist

She is a full-time poet

She is unmarried

She is supported entirely by patrons
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?

the natural world

astronomy

machinery and weapons

domestic labor
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?

Poet Laureate of the United States

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Famous Feminist

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

podcast host

marketing executive

schoolteacher

horse jockey
22 What is this poem's form?

Free verse

Sonnet

Prose poem

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

serious to ironic

humorous to angry

hopeless to ambitious

critical to vulnerable
24 Which award did this book win?

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Pulitzer Prize
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?

zing

woosh

phew

whiff

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