Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
turning their heads away

rolling their eyes

biting their tongue

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

knife

why

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

a job

a punishment

a reward
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Jane Austen

Octavia Butler

Judy Brady

Virginia Woolf
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
I Want A Wife

Kindred

Sense and Sensibility

A Room of One's Own
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?
good wife

housewife

fishwife

bad wife
7 Which of the following does the speaker NOT describe herself doing?
staring

journaling in the yard

tearing the earth

crying
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a roar of fire

a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

the bark of a dog
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"
diminished

admonished

invalidated

erased
10 The single girls say that their friend's upcoming trip is "not _________"
feminist

respectful

child-inclusive

wife-approved
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
fixing

crying

writing

grieving
12 To whom is the end of the poem addressed?
the single girls

the husband

the reader

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

fighting the patriarchy

loving her husband

saying the word wife
14 What part of speech does the speaker use, five times in a row in lines 12-13, to describe a wife?
sounds

adjectives

nouns

verbs
15 Which of the following is NOT a way in which the poem's second half differs from the first?
the second half introduces a "you"

the second half is less feminist

the second half is all one long sentence

the second half is more vulnerable
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
4

1

24

2
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying

The Hurting Kind

Bright Dead Things
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is supported entirely by patrons

She is also a highly successful scientist

She is unmarried

She is a full-time poet
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
domestic labor

machinery and weapons

the natural world

astronomy
20 What title did Limón take on in 2022?
Poet Laureate of the United States

Famous Feminist

Wife

Poet Laureate of Kentucky
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?
Prose poem

Sonnet

Free verse

Epic
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?
critical to vulnerable

serious to ironic

hopeless to ambitious

humorous to angry
24 Which award did this book win?
The Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Guggenheim Fellowship

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

phew

woosh

whiff

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