Yet Do I Marvel Quizzes

Yet Do I Marvel Quiz

1 What kind of poem is "Yet Do I Marvel"?
Villanelle

Haiku

Sonnet

Free verse
2 Which of the following entities does not appear in the poem?
Tantalus

Sisyphus

God

Prometheus
3 What does "inscrutable" mean?
Impossible to understand

Marvelous

Greedy

Cruel
4 What is the "never-ending stair" of the poem?
The road to poetic fame

Sisyphus' hill

Where God dwells

The place where Tantalus is trapped
5 What is the "turn" or shift in tone of a sonnet called?
Volta

Hinge

Contradiction

Pace
6 What does "immune to catechism" mean?
Can't be combined

Can't get sick

Not immunized

Can't merely be memorized and repeated
7 What's wrong with the mole, according to the poem?
It is mortal

It is can't sing

It is black

It lives underground and is blind
8 Most of the poem is written in iambic pentameter, but "Yet do" (accented on the first syllable) is an example of a:
Meter

Form

Spondee

Trochee
9 "And did He stoop to quibble" means:
And did he stoop to quibble? (a question)

If He leaned down

If He wanted to explain

If He dribbled
10 What kind of references or allusions does the poem NOT include?
Entomological

Mythological

Biological

Theological

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