Woman to Man Quizzes

Woman to Man Quiz

1 Which of the following is not true about the speaker?
A woman addresses her partner

The speaker is definitely Wright herself

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

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

Iambic tetrameter

Blank Verse

Free Verse
3 What is an iamb?
A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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

A type of meat that is considered a delicacy in Australia

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

A verse of six measures

A verse of four measures

A verse of five measures
5 Which is an example of sibilance?
silent and swift and deep from sight

This is no child with a child's face;

This is the maker and the made;

This is our hunter and our chase,
6 What is sibilance?
Repetition of "s" sounds

The sound a goat makes

Repetition of "m" sounds

The process of divination
7 Define "resurrection"
Jesus's teachings

Lazarus

Another word for death

The revitalization or revival of something
8 Which is an example of anaphora in the poem?
Shapeless

This is

Strength

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

Another lover

Their guilt

A ghost
10 Which of the following is not used to represent the creation of life?
the strength that my arm knows

the question and reply;

the maker and the made;

our hunter and our chase
11 Which is not a theme in the poem?
Unity

Collective Experience

Grief

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

Five

Six

Four
13 What is suggested by the title?
The speaker is a female deity

The speaker is angry at her partner

The male speaker imagines what it is like to be female

There exists a collective human experience
14 What does light represent in the poem?
Evil

Being overwhelmed

Blindness

Being in the world
15 What does the poem simultaneously refer to?
The sexual act and the period of gestation

Anger and forgiveness

Love and hate

Being single and being a parent
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

There is no significance

It naturalizes the creation of life

It is beautiful but has no meaning
17 Which line suggests an ignorance involved in creating life?
foresees the unimagined light.

yet you and I have known it well.

the blind head butting at the dark,

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?
It grounds the creation of life inside human anatomy and physiology

There is no significance

It inserts a divine quality into the creation of life

It negatively compares the couple's bodies
19 Which line implies some danger in life?
This is our hunter and our chase,

This is no child with a child's face;

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

the precise crystals of our eyes.
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

Shifts the focus, voice, and tone

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

The baby does not exist

The baby is born

No
22 Which description best contributes to a sense of tessellation in the poem?
This is no child with a child's face;

the precise crystals of our eyes.

foresees the unimagined light.

This is our hunter and our chase,
23 What is "the blade" suggestive of?
Safety

Weaponry

Self-defence

Pain, danger, walking a thin line
24 Who is being addressed in the poem?
Just the speaker's partner

The speaker's child

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

God
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;

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

he blind head butting at the dark,

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