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?
Tantalus

Prometheus

God

Sisyphus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Cruel

Greedy

Marvelous

Impossible to understand
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
Where God dwells

Sisyphus' hill

The road to poetic fame

The place where Tantalus is trapped
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?
Contradiction

Hinge

Pace

Volta
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Can't get sick

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Not immunized

Can't be combined
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?
It is mortal

It is black

It is can't sing

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

Meter

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

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He wanted to explain

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

Mythological

Entomological

Biological

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