Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1970

1959

1967

1966
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?
Psalms

Epistle of James

The Book of Genesis

Song of Songs
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?
The original humans

Children of Mary

Angels

Snakes
4 Who is Eve addressing?
Her daughters: modern women

All her children

Adam

Abel and Cain
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"
who endured

who started it

who began it

who should be blamed
6 Which best describes Eve's tone in the poem?
Aggressive, angry, contemptful

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Informal, ironic, logical

Relatable, wrathful, reflective
7 What is the meter?
Free verse

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter

Ballad
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?
Eve

The couple

Adam

The children
9 Define "draughty."
Misbehaving

Cold and uncomfortable

Warm and moist

A kind of laughter
10 What does the phrase "not unhappy" suggest?
Adam and Eve both struggled to adapt to life on earth

Adam struggled to make their earthly life livable. The best he could do was feel "not unhappy"

A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy

This double negative suggests hesitation and confusion, perhaps suggesting that Eve feels the opposite
11 Why might the poem use little to no metaphor or simile?
The language remains straightforward and gives an edge of modernity and irony.

Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.

Wright dislikes using metaphors.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.

What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

Faults of character are the only real thing.

Faults of character are demonstrable, and thus exist.
13 What is Eve's brand of logic?
The same as Adam's.

Adam is faultless and worthy of following.

Perhaps nothing exists but our faults.

Faults of character are not real.
14 Whose logic does Eve use to negate Adam in the final stanza?
Her own

None

Both hers and his

His own
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?
Eve will always follow her husband.

Eve feels passionately about her husband.

Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?
Adam and Eve

The other humans

Adam and Eve's children

Divine figures
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
Then you cook.

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).

You can see how his pride had been hurt.

I repent my ways,
18 Which are examples of modern jargon that express the values in certain modern societies?
Yes, he got to the centre where nothing at all can be demonstrated.

mechanical harvesters, combustion engines, escalators, refrigerators,

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

God and the Other
19 Who is "the Other"?
Most likely Satan

Adam

God

Eve
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?
Eve's beauty

Eve's own faults of character

Eve's rebellious nature

A propensity to speak up
21 What does Eve say that faults of character have?
A life of their own

Their own logic

Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

A destructive nature
22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?
True and transparent.

None

Ironic because their story ended in murder.

Proud because Eve is their mother.
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?
He has turned himself into God,

Faults of character have their own logic

for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over

It was not I who began it.
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?
"But you are my daughters..."

"You see, he..."

"In the process..."

"It was not I..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?
You see, he had always been jealous.

He has turned himself into God, who is faultless, and doesn’t exist.

You see, he was always an egotist.

That he realized his hubris and set to work fixing the problems on earth.

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