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Quiz about Wallace Stevens Sunday Morning

Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" Quiz

All you need to do is find the missing word of this poem to get the prize. Okay, there isn't really a prize, but I know you'll take the quiz anyway.

A multiple-choice quiz by pennie1478. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
pennie1478

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
236,392

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
282

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. "Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and _____ in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
Upon a rug mingle to dissipate
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice."

What fruit is the woman having for breakfast? Hint

Apples

Oranges

Bananas

Peaches

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Question 2 of 10

2. "Gusty emotions on wet roads on ____ nights;
All pleasures and all pains, remembering
The bough of summer and the winter branch.
These are the measure destined for her soul."

What season does this poem take place?

Hint

Summer

Spring

Autumn

Winter

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Question 3 of 10

3. "_____ is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."

What does the woman say is the mother of beauty? Hint

Love

Life

Death

Sunrise

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Question 4 of 10

4. "She hears, upon that water without sound,
A voice that cries, "The ____ in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay."

For what does the woman hear the voice cry?

Answer: (Four letter word)

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Question 5 of 10

5. "What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in _____?"

Besides silent shadows, from where else does divinity come? Hint

Song

Time

Love

Dreams

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Question 6 of 10

6. "____ in the clouds had his inhuman birth.
No mother suckled him, no sweet land gave
Large-mannered motions to his mythy mind."

What mythical person is being described?
Hint

Zeus

Ares

Aphrodite

Jove

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Question 7 of 10

7. "But when the ____ are gone, and their warm fields
Return no more, where, then, is paradise?"

For paradise to be no more, what has disappeared?
Hint

Flowers

Suns

Birds

Babies

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Question 8 of 10

8. "She makes the _____ shiver in the sun
For maidens who were wont to sit and gaze
Upon the grass, relinquished to their feet."

What does she make shiver in the sun?
Hint

Flower

Willow

Branches

Leaves

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Question 9 of 10

9. "Is there no change of _____ in paradise?
Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs
Hang always heavy in that perfect sky,
Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,
With rivers like our own that seek for seas
They never find, the same receding shores
That never touch with inarticulate pang?"

According to the poem, what is there no change of in paradise?"
Hint

Life

Death

Seasons

Thought

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Question 10 of 10

10. "At evening, casual flocks of _____ make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings."

What is the flock that keeps making the undulations? Hint

Cardinals

Blue jays

Pigeons

Hummingbirds

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and _____ in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice." What fruit is the woman having for breakfast?

Answer: Oranges

"Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
Upon a rug mingle to dissipate
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice."

2. "Gusty emotions on wet roads on ____ nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The bough of summer and the winter branch. These are the measure destined for her soul." What season does this poem take place?

Answer: Autumn

"Gusty emotions on wet roads on autumn nights;
All pleasures and all pains, remembering
The bough of summer and the winter branch.
These are the measure destined for her soul."

3. "_____ is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires." What does the woman say is the mother of beauty?

Answer: Death

"She says, "But in contentment I still feel
The need of some imperishable bliss."
Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."

4. "She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice that cries, "The ____ in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay." For what does the woman hear the voice cry?

Answer: Tomb

"She hears, upon that water without sound,
A voice that cries, "The tomb in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay."

5. "What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in _____?" Besides silent shadows, from where else does divinity come?

Answer: Dreams

"What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
Shall she not find in comforts of the sun,
In pungent fruit and bright green wings, or else
In any balm or beauty of the earth,
Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven?"

6. "____ in the clouds had his inhuman birth. No mother suckled him, no sweet land gave Large-mannered motions to his mythy mind." What mythical person is being described?

Answer: Jove

"Jove in the clouds had his inhuman birth.
No mother suckled him, no sweet land gave
Large-mannered motions to his mythy mind.
He moved among us, as a muttering king,
Magnificent, would move among his hinds,
Until our blood, commingling, virginal,
With heaven, brought such requital to desire
The very hinds discerned it, in a star."

7. "But when the ____ are gone, and their warm fields Return no more, where, then, is paradise?" For paradise to be no more, what has disappeared?

Answer: Birds

"She says, "I am content when wakened birds,
Before they fly, test the reality
Of misty fields, by their sweet questionings;
But when the birds are gone, and their warm fields
Return no more, where, then, is paradise?"

8. "She makes the _____ shiver in the sun For maidens who were wont to sit and gaze Upon the grass, relinquished to their feet." What does she make shiver in the sun?

Answer: Willow

"She makes the willow shiver in the sun
For maidens who were wont to sit and gaze
Upon the grass, relinquished to their feet.
She causes boys to pile new plums and pears
On disregarded plate. The maidens taste
And stray impassioned in the littering leaves."

9. "Is there no change of _____ in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?" According to the poem, what is there no change of in paradise?"

Answer: Death

"Is there no change of death in paradise?
Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs
Hang always heavy in that perfect sky,
Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth,
With rivers like our own that seek for seas
They never find, the same receding shores
That never touch with inarticulate pang?"

10. "At evening, casual flocks of _____ make Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward to darkness, on extended wings." What is the flock that keeps making the undulations?

Answer: Pigeons

"At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings."

Source: Author pennie1478

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