Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Haiku

Free verse

Villanelle

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

Sisyphus

Tantalus

God

Prometheus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?

Greedy

Marvelous

Impossible to understand

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

Sisyphus' hill

The road to poetic fame

Where God dwells

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

Volta

Hinge

Pace

Contradiction
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

Not immunized

Can't get sick

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

It is can't sing

It is mortal

It is black

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:

Trochee

Form

Spondee

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

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He dribbled

If He wanted to explain

If He leaned down
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?

Theological

Mythological

Biological

Entomological

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