Yet Do I Marvel

What is the theme of the sonnet, "Yet Do I Marvel" ?

• Friendship

• Religion

• Love

• Fear

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What does this line mean: The little buried mole continues blind

• The mole is a spy.

• The mole is buried in the ground all day.

• The mole goes about life with no thought of being blind.

• Some moles are little and some are big.

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What does the word quibble mean?

• An objection or argument

• A game in Harry Potter

• A type of scribble

• A board game

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Which line from the poem means man will die one day.

• To struggle up a never ending stair.

• With petty cares to slightly understand.

• Inscrutable His ways are, and immune

• Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die.

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Tantalus and Sisyphus are both found in ______.

• Nursery Rhymes

• Greek Mythology

• The Bible

• Children's songs

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What does the word marvel mean in the title, "Yet Do I Marvel"?

• Heroes

• Avengers

• Worry

• Wonder

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Who in the poem was tortured?

• Sisyphus

• Tantalus

• God

• The mole

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Who in the poem was doomed?

• Sisyphus

• Tantalus

• God

• The mole

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Why was Countee Cullen questioning God in his sonnet?

• He didn't like God and his plan.

• He wondered why God would give him a voice no one would listen to.

• He didn't like Greek Mythology.

• He didn't like his life.

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What line in the poem shows WHY the author was questioning?

• No doubt God is good, well-meaning, kind

• To catechism by a mind too strewn.

• What awful brain compels His awful hand

• To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

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