Woman to Man Quizzes

Woman to Man Quiz

1 Which of the following is not true about the speaker?

A woman addresses her partner

A woman ponders the creation of life from the intimate sexual act until the labor of birth

The speaker is definitely Wright herself

In speaking about her own situation, a woman connects to all of humanity
2 What is the poem's meter?

Blank Verse

Free Verse

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter
3 What is an iamb?

A metrical foot consisting of an stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

A type of meat that is considered a delicacy in Australia

A metrical foot consisting of an stressed syllable followed by another stressed syllable
4 What is tetrameter?

A verse of six measures

A verse of three measures

A verse of four measures

A verse of five measures
5 Which is an example of sibilance?

This is our hunter and our chase,

silent and swift and deep from sight

This is no child with a child's face;

This is the maker and the made;
6 What is sibilance?

The process of divination

Repetition of "m" sounds

Repetition of "s" sounds

The sound a goat makes
7 Define "resurrection"

The revitalization or revival of something

Jesus's teachings

Another word for death

Lazarus
8 Which is an example of anaphora in the poem?

Strength

Shapeless

The Maker

This is
9 Who is the third that lays in the couple's embrace?

Another lover

The couple's child

A ghost

Their guilt
10 Which of the following is not used to represent the creation of life?

our hunter and our chase

the maker and the made;

the strength that my arm knows

the question and reply;
11 Which is not a theme in the poem?

Unity

Collective Experience

Natural Course of Life

Grief
12 How many stanzas are in the poem?

Four

Five

Three

Six
13 What is suggested by the title?

The male speaker imagines what it is like to be female

There exists a collective human experience

The speaker is a female deity

The speaker is angry at her partner
14 What does light represent in the poem?

Blindness

Being overwhelmed

Evil

Being in the world
15 What does the poem simultaneously refer to?

Being single and being a parent

Anger and forgiveness

Love and hate

The sexual act and the period of gestation
16 What is significant about the metaphor concerning the blood's wild tree and the intricate and folded rose?

It is beautiful but has no meaning

There is no significance

It naturalizes the creation of life

Roses do not come from trees
17 Which line suggests an ignorance involved in creating life?

yet you and I have known it well.

the blind head butting at the dark,

foresees the unimagined light.

the arc of flesh that is my breast,
18 What is significant about mentioning the man's strength and the arc of the woman's flesh?

There is no significance

It negatively compares the couple's bodies

It grounds the creation of life inside human anatomy and physiology

It inserts a divine quality into the creation of life
19 Which line implies some danger in life?

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

the precise crystals of our eyes.

This is our hunter and our chase,

This is no child with a child's face;
20 What does the last line do in the poem?

Suggest the cycle of generations by implying the speaker will one day be a grandmother

Shifts the focus, voice, and tone

Complains to the addressee

Focus on holding the baby
21 In the beginning of the poem, is the baby already developed?

The baby is born

The baby does not exist

Yes

No
22 Which description best contributes to a sense of tessellation in the poem?

This is no child with a child's face;

This is our hunter and our chase,

the precise crystals of our eyes.

foresees the unimagined light.
23 What is "the blade" suggestive of?

Safety

Weaponry

Pain, danger, walking a thin line

Self-defence
24 Who is being addressed in the poem?

The speaker's partner, and the reader (all of humanity)

The speaker's child

God

Just the speaker's partner
25 Which line best infuses a divine quality into the creation of life?

this has no name to name it by;

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

he blind head butting at the dark,

This is the maker and the made;

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