Woman to Man Quizzes

Woman to Man Quiz

1 Which of the following is not true about the speaker?
A woman addresses her partner

The speaker is definitely Wright herself

In speaking about her own situation, a woman connects to all of humanity

A woman ponders the creation of life from the intimate sexual act until the labor of birth
2 What is the poem's meter?
Blank Verse

Free Verse

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
3 What is an iamb?
A metrical foot consisting of an stressed syllable followed by another stressed syllable

A metrical foot consisting of an stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

A type of meat that is considered a delicacy in Australia
4 What is tetrameter?
A verse of six measures

A verse of four measures

A verse of five measures

A verse of three measures
5 Which is an example of sibilance?
This is no child with a child's face;

This is our hunter and our chase,

This is the maker and the made;

silent and swift and deep from sight
6 What is sibilance?
The process of divination

The sound a goat makes

Repetition of "s" sounds

Repetition of "m" sounds
7 Define "resurrection"
The revitalization or revival of something

Lazarus

Jesus's teachings

Another word for death
8 Which is an example of anaphora in the poem?
The Maker

Shapeless

This is

Strength
9 Who is the third that lays in the couple's embrace?
Their guilt

The couple's child

Another lover

A ghost
10 Which of the following is not used to represent the creation of life?
the question and reply;

the strength that my arm knows

our hunter and our chase

the maker and the made;
11 Which is not a theme in the poem?
Natural Course of Life

Collective Experience

Grief

Unity
12 How many stanzas are in the poem?
Four

Six

Five

Three
13 What is suggested by the title?
There exists a collective human experience

The male speaker imagines what it is like to be female

The speaker is angry at her partner

The speaker is a female deity
14 What does light represent in the poem?
Blindness

Evil

Being in the world

Being overwhelmed
15 What does the poem simultaneously refer to?
The sexual act and the period of gestation

Being single and being a parent

Love and hate

Anger and forgiveness
16 What is significant about the metaphor concerning the blood's wild tree and the intricate and folded rose?
It is beautiful but has no meaning

There is no significance

It naturalizes the creation of life

Roses do not come from trees
17 Which line suggests an ignorance involved in creating life?
yet you and I have known it well.

foresees the unimagined light.

the blind head butting at the dark,

the arc of flesh that is my breast,
18 What is significant about mentioning the man's strength and the arc of the woman's flesh?
It inserts a divine quality into the creation of life

It grounds the creation of life inside human anatomy and physiology

There is no significance

It negatively compares the couple's bodies
19 Which line implies some danger in life?
the precise crystals of our eyes.

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

This is no child with a child's face;

This is our hunter and our chase,
20 What does the last line do in the poem?
Shifts the focus, voice, and tone

Focus on holding the baby

Suggest the cycle of generations by implying the speaker will one day be a grandmother

Complains to the addressee
21 In the beginning of the poem, is the baby already developed?
Yes

The baby is born

The baby does not exist

No
22 Which description best contributes to a sense of tessellation in the poem?
the precise crystals of our eyes.

This is our hunter and our chase,

This is no child with a child's face;

foresees the unimagined light.
23 What is "the blade" suggestive of?
Weaponry

Self-defence

Safety

Pain, danger, walking a thin line
24 Who is being addressed in the poem?
The speaker's partner, and the reader (all of humanity)

Just the speaker's partner

God

The speaker's child
25 Which line best infuses a divine quality into the creation of life?
this has no name to name it by;

This is the maker and the made;

the selfless, shapeless seed I hold,

he blind head butting at the dark,

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