Instructions on Not Giving Up Quizzes

Instructions on Not Giving Up Quiz

1 Which of the following trees is named in the poem?
Pear

Cherry

Maple

Oak
2 What does "confetti of aftermath" refer to?
Autumn leaves littering the sidewalk

The speaker's joyous feelings

Flowers fallen onto the ground

Leftover party decorations from New Year's
3 When the new leaf is unfurling, to what human body part is it compared?
Fist

Scars

Eyes

Palm
4 What color are the crabapple blossoms?
Fuchsia

Jade

White

Slate
5 How is the "idea of continuous living" described?
Shocking

Strange

Obscene

Empty
6 Which of the following is NOT a word used to describe the growth of new leaves?
Patient

Plodding

Slick

Determined
7 What "really gets to" the speaker?
The first rain

The greening of the trees

The neighbor's garden

The world's baubles and trinkets
8 How many lines does this poem have?
12

16

14

10
9 Who or what seems to speak in the closing lines of the poem?
The tree

The neighbor

The sky

The reader
10 Which of the following descriptors does NOT appear in the poem?
Taffy

Plodding

Cotton candy

Frenzied
11 What poetic form does this poem draw on?
Villanelle

Sonnet

Triolet

Sestina
12 Which of the following honors has Ada Limón NOT held?
Librarian of Congress

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

Poet Laureate of the U.S.

Guggenheim Fellow
13 What is the name of the book containing "Instructions on Not Giving Up"?
The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things
14 Where was "Instructions on Not Giving Up" first published?
The New Yorker

Social media

Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets

Poetry Magazine
15 What is the term for breaking a line of poetry in the middle of a phrase or sentence?
Iambic pentameter

Assonance

Volta

Enjambment
16 What word/phrase does Limón use multiple times to set up suspense early in this poem?
Beyond

It is not

More than

Unlike
17 What defiant declaration gets repeated in the last three lines?
I'll take it

Come what may

Bring it on

I am ready
18 During what era was Ada Limón writing?
1800s

1910s

1950s

2000s
19 Which of the following literary devices is NOT used prominently within the poem?
Personification

Metaphor

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia
20 To which of the human senses does the poem appeal most?
Tongue / taste images

Eyes / visual images

Ears / auditory images

Hands / touch images
21 Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement of the poem's message?
You can recover from hurt and loss

Choose to keep living and accept what life has in store

Nature has powerful lessons on how not to give up

Celebrate now, because life is short
22 What is the central contrast in the poem's image system?
Flowers versus leaves

Grass versus pavement

Sky versus earth

Silence versus sound
23 What other role has Ada Limón held, aside from poet?
Musician

Podcast host

YouTuber

Politician
24 What meter describes the poem's final line?
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic hexameter

Dactylic hexameter
25 Quick! Without looking elsewhere, what's the name of the poem?
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