Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

By Kenan Sharpe · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed August 04, 2022

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

Free verse

Villanelle

Haiku

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

Sisyphus

Tantalus

Prometheus

God
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?

Cruel

Greedy

Marvelous

Impossible to understand
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?

Hinge

Contradiction

Volta

Pace
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?

Can't get sick

Can't be combined

Can't merely be memorized and repeated

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

It is mortal

It is can't sing

It lives underground and is blind

It is black
8 Most of the poem is written in iambic pentameter, but "Yet do" (accented on the first syllable) is an example of a:

Spondee

Meter

Form

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

If He dribbled

If He wanted to explain

And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

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

Theological

Entomological

Mythological

Biological

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