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

why

white

knife
3 The speaker asks why being a wife sounds like ______
a role in a play

a punishment

a reward

a job
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?
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

housewife

bad wife
7 Which of the following does the speaker NOT describe herself doing?
journaling in the yard

tearing the earth

staring

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
the bark of a dog

a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire
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 _________"
wife-approved

feminist

child-inclusive

respectful
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
crying

writing

grieving

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

the single girls

the husband

the reader
13 What does the speaker worry she "isn't good at"?
writing her poems

saying the word wife

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?
verbs

adjectives

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 introduces a "you"

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half is all one long sentence

the second half is less feminist
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
24

1

4

2
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Bright Dead Things

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying

The Hurting Kind
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is also a highly successful scientist

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is a full-time poet

She is unmarried
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
the natural world

domestic labor

machinery and weapons

astronomy
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Wife

Poet Laureate of the United States

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

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

marketing executive

podcast host

horse jockey
22 What is this poem's form?
Epic

Prose poem

Sonnet

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

critical to vulnerable

serious to ironic

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

The Pulitzer Prize

The Guggenheim Fellowship

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

woosh

zing

whiff

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