Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
turning their heads away

biting their tongue

plugging their ears

rolling their eyes
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?
white

knife

life

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

a job

a role in a play

a punishment
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Jane Austen

Judy Brady

Octavia Butler

Virginia Woolf
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
I Want A Wife

Kindred

A Room of One's Own

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

good wife

bad wife

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

crying

journaling in the yard

tearing the earth
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire

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

erased

admonished

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

respectful

feminist

wife-approved
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
crying

fixing

writing

grieving
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?
the reader

the single girls

the husband

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?
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 introduces a "you"

the second half is all one long sentence

the second half is less feminist

the second half is more vulnerable
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
1

24

2

4
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying

Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is also a highly successful scientist
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?
Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Poet Laureate of the United States

Wife

Famous Feminist
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?
horse jockey

marketing executive

schoolteacher

podcast host
22 What is this poem's form?
Prose poem

Epic

Free verse

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

serious to ironic

hopeless to ambitious

critical to vulnerable
24 Which award did this book win?
The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Critics Circle Award

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

woosh

zing

phew

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