Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

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

Sonnet

Free verse

Villanelle

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

Tantalus

Sisyphus

God

Prometheus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?

Impossible to understand

Greedy

Cruel

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

The place where Tantalus is trapped

The road to poetic fame

Sisyphus' hill

Where God dwells
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?

Contradiction

Pace

Hinge

Volta
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 is can't sing

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

Spondee

Form

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

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He leaned down

If He wanted to explain

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

Theological

Entomological

Biological

Mythological

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