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Melville's Poetry

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Melville, Herman : Melville's Poetry

Introduction:
"My third Melville quiz is about his poetry, not as well-known as his other works, but as memorable."


1. Name Melville's collection of Civil War poetry.
    War Poems
    For The Union Dead
    War Is Kind
    Battle-Pieces


2. Who was the English artist who made the marine painting Melville based a poem on?
    Turner
    Lawrence
    Gainsborough
    Reynolds


3. In what poem did Melville say 'All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys'?
    Ball's Bluff
    The March Into Virginia
    Malvern Hill
    Gettysburg


4. What ships made up the 'Stone Fleet' Melville wrote about?
    clippers
    whalers
    warships
    frigates


5. Who did Melville call 'the meteor of the war'?
    Ulysses S. Grant
    John Brown
    Robert E. Lee
    Abraham Lincoln


6. What part of the old sailing ships did Melville write about?
    Bowsprit
    Harpoon
    Yardarm
    Figure-Head


7. What did a ship smash itself against in a Melville poem?
    whale
    another ship
    coral reef
    iceberg


8. What short poem did Melville pen about the aftermath of a shipwreck at sea?
    Far Off-Shore
    The Raft
    The Wreck
    The Quick and The Dead


9. What poem did Melville base on an old sea chantey?
    John Marr
    Tom Deadlight
    Jack Roy
    To Ned


10. Name the title of the elegy Melville is thought to have wrote on his friend and fellow writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.
    Elegy
    Monody
    Requiem
    Ave atque Vale


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