Eve to Her Daughters Quizzes

Eve to Her Daughters Quiz

1 When was this poem written?
1966

1967

1970

1959
2 Where does the character of Eve come from?
Song of Songs

Psalms

The Book of Genesis

Epistle of James
3 Who were the biblical Adam and Eve?
Angels

Children of Mary

Snakes

The original humans
4 Who is Eve addressing?
All her children

Her daughters: modern women

Adam

Abel and Cain
5 Finish this line: "It was not I___"
who should be blamed

who started it

who began it

who endured
6 Which best describes Eve's tone in the poem?
Informal, ironic, logical

Ancient, divine, judgemental

Relatable, wrathful, reflective

Aggressive, angry, contemptful
7 What is the meter?
Free verse

Ballad

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse
8 Who cannot adapt to life on earth?
The children

Eve

The couple

Adam
9 Define "draughty."
Misbehaving

Warm and moist

Cold and uncomfortable

A kind of laughter
10 What does the phrase "not unhappy" suggest?
A double negative makes a positive; Eve is happy

This double negative suggests hesitation and confusion, perhaps suggesting that Eve feels the opposite

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"
11 Why might the poem use little to no metaphor or simile?
Eve's depression prevents her from seeing the beauty of the world.

The language remains straightforward and gives an edge of modernity and irony.

Eve is a very direct and straightforward person.

Wright dislikes using metaphors.
12 Define Adam's brand of logic.
What cannot be demonstrated doesn’t exist.

What cannot be physically demonstrated can still be believable through faith.

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?
His own

Her own

Both hers and his

None
15 What do the ellipses and exclamation mark suggest in the line "But Adam, you know ….. !"?
Eve is prepared to replace her husband.

Eve feels passionately about her husband.

Eve silently but strongly disagrees with Adam's behavior.

Eve will always follow her husband.
16 Who is "They" in the poem?
The other humans

Adam and Eve

Divine figures

Adam and Eve's children
17 What does Eve say when Adam complains about her cooking?
You can see how his pride had been hurt.

I repent my ways,

Then you cook.

(it was hard to compete with Heaven).
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,

God and the Other

multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education
19 Who is "the Other"?
Adam

Eve

God

Most likely Satan
20 What have Eve's daughters inherited?
Eve's own faults of character

Eve's beauty

A propensity to speak up

Eve's rebellious nature
21 What does Eve say that faults of character have?
A destructive nature

A life of their own

Multiplied opportunities for safe investment and higher education

Their own logic
22 Which best characterizes the line "I observed this with Abel and Cain"?
Proud because Eve is their mother.

Ironic because their story ended in murder.

True and transparent.

None
23 What is Eve's primary message to her daughters?
for the sake of the children, it’s time you took over

He has turned himself into God,

Faults of character have their own logic

It was not I who began it.
24 Which is an anaphora in the poem?
"It was not I..."

"You see, he..."

"In the process..."

"But you are my daughters..."
25 What does Eve say about Adam in the end?
He has turned himself into God, who is faultless, and doesn’t exist.

You see, he had always been jealous.

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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