Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
biting their tongue

rolling their eyes

turning their heads away

plugging their ears
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?
why

white

life

knife
3 The speaker asks why being a wife sounds like ______
a role in a play

a job

a reward

a punishment
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Octavia Butler

Jane Austen

Judy Brady

Virginia Woolf
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
A Room of One's Own

Kindred

Sense and Sensibility

I Want A Wife
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?
good wife

housewife

bad wife

fishwife
7 Which of the following does the speaker NOT describe herself doing?
journaling in the yard

tearing the earth

crying

staring
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
the bark of a dog

a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

a roar of fire
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"
invalidated

diminished

erased

admonished
10 The single girls say that their friend's upcoming trip is "not _________"
child-inclusive

wife-approved

respectful

feminist
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
grieving

fixing

writing

crying
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?
the reader

the husband

the single girls

the famous feminist
13 What does the speaker worry she "isn't good at"?
writing her poems

saying the word wife

fighting the patriarchy

loving her husband
14 What part of speech does the speaker use, five times in a row in lines 12-13, to describe a wife?
nouns

adjectives

sounds

verbs
15 Which of the following is NOT a way in which the poem's second half differs from the first?
the second half is all one long sentence

the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half is less feminist
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
1

4

2

24
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things

The Carrying

Sharks in the Rivers
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is also a highly successful scientist

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
machinery and weapons

astronomy

the natural world

domestic labor
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Famous Feminist

Poet Laureate of the United States

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Wife
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?
horse jockey

marketing executive

podcast host

schoolteacher
22 What is this poem's form?
Free verse

Sonnet

Prose poem

Epic
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?
serious to ironic

critical to vulnerable

humorous to angry

hopeless to ambitious
24 Which award did this book win?
The Pulitzer Prize

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Ruth Lilly Scholarship
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?
zing

woosh

phew

whiff

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