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Aubade Quiz

1 How many lines does each stanza have?
10

6

3

7
2 In what year was “Aubade” published?
1985

1977

1989

1972
3 What is the poem’s general meter?
Anapestic

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic
4 What does the speaker do in the first line?
Go to church

Go out with friend

Work and get drunk

Complete a crossword puzzle
5 What worries the speaker most about death?
Making his loved ones sad

The eternity of it

Feeling nothing

It coming randomly
6 What is an aubade?
A poem about religion

A poem set in dawn or early morning

A poem about death

A poem set at night
7 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABAB

ABCB

ABBA

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

His girlfriend's

His father's

His sister's
9 What is a brocade?
A type of clothing

A type of bag

A type of jewelry

A type of fabric
10 What is NOT a theme of Aubade?
Isolation

Death

Romantic love

Religion
11 What religion did Larkin follow?
Christianity

Buddhism

Judaism

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

Death

Doctors

Teachers
13 Besides being a writer, what did Larkin work as?
A librarian

A doctor

A teacher

A policeman
14 At what age did Larkin die?
47

63

55

72
15 What is NOT an example of alliteration?
"intricate rented world"

"whined at than withstood"

"to hold and horrify"

"furnace-fear"
16 Where is the poem set?
The speaker's friend's house

The speaker's bedroom

The speaker's place of work

The speaker's school
17 What is an example of a simile?
"Postmen like doctors go from house to house"

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

"That vast moth-eaten musical brocade"

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

Joyful

Gloomy

Playful
19 What describes the speaker's feelings about religion and rationalism?
He objects to both

He believes in religion, but not rationalism

He believes in rationalism, but not religion

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

Anxiety

Confidence

Courage
21 Which literary device does NOT appear?
Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

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

Gray

White

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

Death

Science

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

10 am

4 am

6 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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