Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

1 What gesture do the "single girls" make?
rolling their eyes

turning their heads away

biting their tongue

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

why

knife

life
3 The speaker asks why being a wife sounds like ______
a job

a reward

a role in a play

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

Judy Brady

Jane Austen

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

Kindred

A Room of One's Own

Sense and Sensibility
6 Which of the following appears FIRST in lines 13-14?
good wife

bad wife

housewife

fishwife
7 Which of the following does the speaker NOT describe herself doing?
crying

staring

journaling in the yard

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

the bark of a dog

the shriek of truck tires

a train whistle
9 The speaker "doesn't want to be _______"
invalidated

diminished

admonished

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

wife-approved

child-inclusive

feminist
11 The speaker "cannot stop ________"
grieving

fixing

writing

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

the famous feminist

the reader

the single girls
13 What does the speaker worry she "isn't good at"?
saying the word wife

writing her poems

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?
sounds

nouns

adjectives

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 all one long sentence

the second half is less feminist

the second half is more vulnerable
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
1

2

24

4
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
The Carrying

Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind

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

She is unmarried

She is supported entirely by patrons

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

domestic labor

machinery and weapons

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

Poet Laureate of Kentucky

Wife

Famous Feminist
21 Which of the following is a side role Ada Limón holds?
marketing executive

podcast host

schoolteacher

horse jockey
22 What is this poem's form?
Epic

Sonnet

Prose poem

Free verse
23 Which of the following best describes the tonal shift over the course of the poem?
hopeless to ambitious

critical to vulnerable

serious to ironic

humorous to angry
24 Which award did this book win?
The Guggenheim Fellowship

The National Book Critics Circle Award

The Pulitzer Prize

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

phew

zing

woosh

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