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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
10

7

6

3
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1972

1989

1977

1985
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Trochaic

Anapestic

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Complete a crossword puzzle

Work and get drunk

Go to church

Go out with friend
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
The eternity of it

Making his loved ones sad

Feeling nothing

It coming randomly
6 What is an aubade?
A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem about death

A poem set at night

A poem about religion
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB

ABCB

ABBA

ABABCCDEED
8 After whose death did Larkin resume writing "Aubade"?
His girlfriend's

His sister's

His mother's

His father's
9 What is a brocade?
A type of fabric

A type of jewelry

A type of clothing

A type of bag
10 What is NOT a theme of Aubade?
Death

Religion

Romantic love

Isolation
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Buddhism

Christianity

Judaism

None
12 What is does Larkin compare postmen to in the last line?
Doctors

Teachers

Death

Writers
13 Besides being a writer, what did Larkin work as?
A policeman

A librarian

A teacher

A doctor
14 At what age did Larkin die?
55

63

72

47
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"whined at than withstood"

"to hold and horrify"

"intricate rented world"

"furnace-fear"
16 Where is the poem set?
The speaker's place of work

The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's school
17 What is an example of a simile?
"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

"An only life can take so long to climb/Clear of its wrong beginnings"

"Meanwhile telephones crouch"
18 Which word best describes the tone of the poem?
Romantic

Playful

Gloomy

Joyful
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

He objects to both

He's comforted by both
20 To the speaker, what "means not scaring others"?
Anxiety

Happiness

Courage

Confidence
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Simile

Onomatopoeia
22 What color is the sky in the final verse?
Pink

Gray

Blue

White
23 What does the speaker describe as a "vast moth-eaten musical brocade"?
Religion

Death

Love

Science
24 At what time does the speaker wake up?
8 am

4 am

6 am

10 am
25 What line is NOT an example of iambic pentameter?
"The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse"

"Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing"

"And so it stays just on the edge of vision"

"Of dying, and being dead"

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