"Not Waving, But Drowning" Quiz

Stevie Smith struggled with depression and issues relating to

• weight

• abandonment

• abuse

• sexual orientation

Stevie Smith was known for satirizing...

• hymns and nursery rhymes

• newspaper articles

• the Bible

• mythology

The picture that accompanied this poem is of...

• a man drowning

• a man smiling

• a girl waving

• a girl drowning

The stated subject of this poem is ...

• a man

• a girl

• a woman

• a boy

The wave was ...

• a. a call for help

• b. a misinterpreted gesture

• c. a friendly hello

• d. Both a and b

"He always loved larking" is ...

• a funny gesture

• an attempt to blame onlookers

• an attempt to blame the victim

• "He a response to WWI

"It must have been too cold for him" is ...

• a call for help

• an attempt to blame coincidence

• an attempt to blame the viction

• a response to WWI

The speaker understands

• He was too far out this once

• He was always too far out

• He was often too far out

• He never went too far out

Stevie Smith said the poem was inspired by

• a newspaper article

• her real life

• a friend

• thin air

Being "much too far out" is symbolic of ...

• being too intelligent for one's own good

• being in over one's head

• being too awesome

• being too awful