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Question #1
What form is "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" written in?
A.   blank verse
B.   villanelle
C.   iambic pentameter
D.   sonnet
Question #2
What does the speaker suggest that people near death should do?
A.   fight against death
B.   write a final poem
C.   fork lightning
D.   die with dignity
Question #3
What does the speaker want the father to do before death?
A.   curse him
B.   bless him
C.   curse and bless him
D.   cry for him
Question #4
The sestina form, and also Bishop’s poem entitled “Sestina,” are characterized by which of the following?
A.   use of soft consonant sounds to begin every line
B.   use of the same end-words in each stanza except the last
C.   a strict rhyme scheme that repeats in the first and last stanzas
D.   long lines followed by short lines
Question #5
Who says “I know what I know” and “Time to plant tears” (lines 26 and 37)?
A.   the grandmother
B.   the child
C.   the stove
D.   the almanac
Question #6
The child draws a picture of a man. What do we know for sure about this picture?
A.   The man is crying.
B.   He has buttons.
C.   The man is the child’s father.
D.   We do not know anything.
Question #7
Of all of the line-ending words repeated in Bishop’s “Sestina”—“house,” “grandmother,” “child,” “stove,” “almanac,” and “tears”—which are not used at all in the final three-line stanza?
A.   “house,” “grandmother,” “child”
B.   They are all used.
C.   None are used.
D.   “child,” “stove,” “almanac,” and “tears”
Question #8
Match the term to the most appropriate example with capital letters signifying stress. Iamb
A.   better DWELL in the MIDST of alARMS
B.   TYger, TYger, BURNing BRIGHT
C.   when IN disGRACE with FORtune AND men's EYES
Question #9
Match the term to the most appropriate example with capital letters signifying stress. Trochee
A.   TYger, TYger, BURNing BRIGHT
B.   better DWELL in the MIDST of alARMS
C.   when IN disGRACE with FORtune AND men's EYES
Question #10
Match the term to the most appropriate example with capital letters signifying stress. Anapest
A.   better DWELL in the MIDST of alARMS
B.   HALF a league, HALF a league
C.   when IN disGRACE with FORtune AND men's EYES
Question #11
Match the term to the most appropriate example with capital letters signifying stress. Dactyl
A.   better DWELL in the MIDST of alARMS
B.   TYger, TYger, BURNing BRIGHT
C.   HALF a league, HALF a league
Question #12
In a terza rima poem the stanzas are linked to each other by a common sound: one rhyme sound from each stanza is picked up in the next stanza.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #13
A pair of consecutive lines that rhyme and are written in iambic pentameter are called what?
A.   a ballad stanza
B.   free verse
C.   a heroic couplet
D.   blank verse
Question #14
George Herbert's poem "Easter Wings" is an example of a type of poetry which attempts to supplement or replace verbal meanings with visual devices. This type of poetry is called what?
A.   verse poetry
B.   haiku
C.   sonnet poetry
D.   concrete poetry

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