Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quizzes

Wife (Ada Limón poem) Quiz

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

plugging their ears

biting their tongue

turning their heads away
2 What word does the speaker compare to the sound of "wife"?
why

knife

life

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

a punishment

a reward

a job
4 Whom does Limón quote in this poem?
Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen

Judy Brady

Octavia Butler
5 What is the title of the quoted work?
Kindred

Sense and Sensibility

I Want A Wife

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

fishwife

housewife

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

journaling in the yard

tearing the earth

staring
8 To what is the tea kettle compared?
a train whistle

the shriek of truck tires

the bark of a dog

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

erased

admonished

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

feminist

respectful

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

crying

grieving

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

the famous feminist

the single girls

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

fighting the patriarchy

saying the word wife

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 is less feminist

the second half is more vulnerable

the second half introduces a "you"
16 How many stanzas is "Wife"?
2

1

4

24
17 In what book was "Wife" published?
Bright Dead Things

The Hurting Kind

Sharks in the Rivers

The Carrying
18 What is unusual about Ada Limón's career?
She is a full-time poet

She is supported entirely by patrons

She is unmarried

She is also a highly successful scientist
19 What types of images dominate "Wife"?
the natural world

domestic labor

machinery and weapons

astronomy
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?
horse jockey

podcast host

schoolteacher

marketing executive
22 What is this poem's form?
Epic

Free verse

Sonnet

Prose poem
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 Ruth Lilly Scholarship

The Guggenheim Fellowship

The Pulitzer Prize

The National Book Critics Circle Award
25 What onomatopoeia does the speaker use for the word "wife"?
woosh

whiff

zing

phew

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