Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Sonnet

Haiku

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

Tantalus

God

Sisyphus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Cruel

Marvelous

Impossible to understand

Greedy
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
Where God dwells

The road to poetic fame

The place where Tantalus is trapped

Sisyphus' hill
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?
Volta

Contradiction

Hinge

Pace
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Can't be combined

Can't get sick

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

It lives underground and is blind

It is black

It is can't sing
8 Most of the poem is written in iambic pentameter, but "Yet do" (accented on the first syllable) is an example of a:
Meter

Spondee

Trochee

Form
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:
If He leaned down

If He wanted to explain

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He dribbled
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?
Mythological

Theological

Entomological

Biological

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