Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

1 What kind of poem is "Yet Do I Marvel"?

Haiku

Villanelle

Free verse

Sonnet
2 Which of the following entities does not appear in the poem?

God

Prometheus

Tantalus

Sisyphus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?

Impossible to understand

Marvelous

Greedy

Cruel
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?

Sisyphus' hill

Where God dwells

The place where Tantalus is trapped

The road to poetic fame
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?

Contradiction

Hinge

Volta

Pace
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?

Can't be combined

Can't get sick

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Not immunized
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?

It is can't sing

It is black

It is mortal

It lives underground and is blind
8 Most of the poem is written in iambic pentameter, but "Yet do" (accented on the first syllable) is an example of a:

Meter

Trochee

Form

Spondee
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:

If He dribbled

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He leaned down

If He wanted to explain
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?

Biological

Entomological

Theological

Mythological

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