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Yet Do I Marvel

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Friendship

b)

Religion

c)

Love

d)

Fear

2.

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

a)

The mole is a spy.

b)

The mole is buried in the ground all day.

c)

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

d)

Some moles are little and some are big.

3.

What does the word quibble mean?

a)

An objection or argument

b)

A game in Harry Potter

c)

A type of scribble

d)

A board game

4.

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

a)

To struggle up a never ending stair.

b)

With petty cares to slightly understand.

c)

Inscrutable His ways are, and immune

d)

Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die.

5.

Tantalus and Sisyphus are both found in ______.

a)

Nursery Rhymes

b)

Greek Mythology

c)

The Bible

d)

Children's songs

6.

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

a)

Heroes

b)

Avengers

c)

Worry

d)

Wonder

7.

Who in the poem was tortured?

a)

Sisyphus

b)

Tantalus

c)

God

d)

The mole

8.

Who in the poem was doomed?

a)

Sisyphus

b)

Tantalus

c)

God

d)

The mole

9.

Why was Countee Cullen questioning God in his sonnet?

a)

He didn't like God and his plan.

b)

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

c)

He didn't like Greek Mythology.

d)

He didn't like his life.

10.

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

a)

No doubt God is good, well-meaning, kind

b)

To catechism by a mind too strewn.

c)

What awful brain compels His awful hand

d)

To make a poet black, and bid him sing!