Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
plugging their ears

biting their tongue

rolling their eyes

turning their heads away
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?
why

life

white

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

a reward

a role in a play

a job
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Judy Brady

Jane Austen

Octavia Butler

Virginia Woolf
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
Kindred

A Room of One's Own

Sense and Sensibility

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

fishwife

housewife

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

journaling in the yard

staring

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire

the bark of a dog

a train whistle
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 _________"
feminist

child-inclusive

wife-approved

respectful
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
fixing

crying

grieving

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

the reader

the husband

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

writing her poems

fighting the patriarchy

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

sounds

verbs

adjectives
15 Which of the following is NOT a way in which the poem's second half differs from the first?
the second half is all one long sentence

the second half is less feminist

the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is more vulnerable
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
24

2

4

1
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers

Bright Dead Things

The Carrying
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is supported entirely by patrons

She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet

She is also a highly successful scientist
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
machinery and weapons

astronomy

domestic labor

the natural world
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of the United States

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

Prose poem

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

critical to vulnerable

humorous to angry

serious to ironic
24 Which award did this book win?
The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The National Book Critics Circle Award

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

phew

zing

woosh

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