Woman to Man Quizzes

Woman to Man Quiz

1 Which of the following is not true about the speaker?
The speaker is definitely Wright herself

In speaking about her own situation, a woman connects to all of humanity

A woman addresses her partner

A woman ponders the creation of life from the intimate sexual act until the labor of birth
2 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic tetrameter

Free Verse

Blank Verse

Iambic pentameter
3 What is an iamb?
A metrical foot consisting of an stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

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

A verse of four measures

A verse of three measures

A verse of six measures
5 Which is an example of sibilance?
This is the maker and the made;

silent and swift and deep from sight

This is no child with a child's face;

This is our hunter and our chase,
6 What is sibilance?
The process of divination

Repetition of "s" sounds

The sound a goat makes

Repetition of "m" sounds
7 Define "resurrection"
The revitalization or revival of something

Lazarus

Another word for death

Jesus's teachings
8 Which is an example of anaphora in the poem?
The Maker

Strength

Shapeless

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

Their guilt

Another lover

A ghost
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 question and reply;

the strength that my arm knows
11 Which is not a theme in the poem?
Collective Experience

Unity

Grief

Natural Course of Life
12 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Five

Three

Six

Four
13 What is suggested by the title?
The speaker is angry at her partner

There exists a collective human experience

The male speaker imagines what it is like to be female

The speaker is a female deity
14 What does light represent in the poem?
Blindness

Being in the world

Being overwhelmed

Evil
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?
Roses do not come from trees

It is beautiful but has no meaning

It naturalizes the creation of life

There is no significance
17 Which line suggests an ignorance involved in creating life?
the blind head butting at the dark,

yet you and I have known it well.

the arc of flesh that is my breast,

foresees the unimagined light.
18 What is significant about mentioning the man's strength and the arc of the woman's flesh?
It grounds the creation of life inside human anatomy and physiology

It inserts a divine quality into the creation of life

There is no significance

It negatively compares the couple's bodies
19 Which line implies some danger in life?
the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

This is our hunter and our chase,

the precise crystals of our eyes.

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

Complains to the addressee

Focus on holding the baby

Shifts the focus, voice, and tone
21 In the beginning of the poem, is the baby already developed?
Yes

The baby is born

No

The baby does not exist
22 Which description best contributes to a sense of tessellation in the poem?
This is no child with a child's face;

foresees the unimagined light.

the precise crystals of our eyes.

This is our hunter and our chase,
23 What is "the blade" suggestive of?
Pain, danger, walking a thin line

Safety

Self-defence

Weaponry
24 Who is being addressed in the poem?
God

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

Just the speaker's partner

The speaker's child
25 Which line best infuses a divine quality into the creation of life?
This is the maker and the made;

this has no name to name it by;

he blind head butting at the dark,

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

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