Q.1
To whom is this poem addressed?
  • To the narrator
  • To the narrator's (or speaker's) dead father
  • To all fathers everywhere
  • To the poet's father
Q.2
'You do not do, you do not do / Any more, black shoe' -- What effect do these lines create?
  • The beginning of the poem has a soft effect created by sibilance
  • The beginning of the poem sounds joyful
  • The beginning of the poem leads the reader to expect a nursery rhyme
  • The beginning of the poem leads the reader to expect a eulogy
Q.3
The poet compares 'Daddy' to....
  • a Nazi
  • Hitler
  • a vampire
  • All of the above
Q.4
The 'barb wire' in the sixth stanza is an allusion to...
  • the barbed wire of the concentration camps
  • the barbed wire surrounding the narrator's garden
  • the barbed wire of the First World War
  • the barbed wire of a farmer's field
Q.5
'The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna / Are not very pure or true.' -- What do these lines imply?
  • The narrator wishes she were back in Austria
  • The narrator is not really a pure Aryan
  • Viennese beer is good, but the snows of the Tyrol are dirty
  • Austria has dirty snow and bad beer
Q.6
'And I said I do, I do' -- To what does this line in the fourteenth stanza refer?
  • The narrator's new happiness
  • The narrator's sickness
  • The narrator's marriage
  • The narrator's death
Q.7
Considering the answer to question six, who is the 'model' mentioned in these preceding lines: 'And then I knew what to do. / I made a model of you, / A man in black with a Meinkampf look / And a love of the rack and the screw'?
  • Hitler
  • Her brother
  • Her father
  • Her husband
Q.8
Which of the following lines means that her husband drained her life and energy during their marriage?
  • 'They are dancing and stamping on you.'
  • 'And drank my blood for a year, / Seven years, if you want to know'
  • 'The black telephone's off at the root'
  • 'There's a stake in your fat black heart / And the villagers never liked you'
Q.9
The narrator's father died when she was ten. What does she mean by 'I have had to kill you'?
  • The narrator wishes her father hadn't died naturally
  • The narrator wishes all men were dead
  • The narrator wishes she could be rid of the overburdening memory she has of her father
  • The narrator is saying the opposite of what she means
Q.10
The narrator displays ambivalent feelings for 'Daddy'. Which of the following lines contradicts the tone of the rest of the poem?
  • 'Brute heart of a brute like you'
  • 'I have always been scared of you'
  • 'At twenty I tried to die / And get back, back, back to you'
  • 'They are dancing and stamping on you'
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