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"?
white

knife

life

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

a punishment

a reward

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

Judy Brady

Jane Austen

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

Sense and Sensibility

I Want A Wife

A Room of One's Own
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?
bad wife

fishwife

housewife

good wife
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?
the bark of a dog

a train whistle

a roar of fire

the shriek of truck tires
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"
diminished

erased

invalidated

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

respectful

wife-approved

feminist
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
writing

fixing

grieving

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

the single girls

the reader

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

saying the word wife

writing her poems

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

adjectives

sounds

verbs
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

4

2

24
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
The Carrying

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

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

She is a full-time poet

She is also a highly successful scientist

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

machinery and weapons

astronomy

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

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Poet Laureate of the United States

Famous Feminist
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?
podcast host

horse jockey

marketing executive

schoolteacher
22 What is this poem's form?
Epic

Free verse

Prose poem

Sonnet
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?
serious to ironic

humorous to angry

critical to vulnerable

hopeless to ambitious
24 Which award did this book win?
The Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Pulitzer Prize

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

whiff

phew

zing

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