Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Haiku

Villanelle

Free verse
2 Which of the following entities does not appear in the poem?
God

Prometheus

Sisyphus

Tantalus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Cruel

Marvelous

Impossible to understand

Greedy
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?
Pace

Contradiction

Hinge

Volta
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Not immunized

Can't be combined

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Can't get sick
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:
Spondee

Form

Trochee

Meter
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?
Theological

Entomological

Mythological

Biological

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