FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!
Frost Robert Quizzes, Trivia and Puzzles
Frost Robert Quizzes, Trivia

Robert Frost Trivia

Robert Frost Trivia Quizzes

  1. Home
  2. »
  3. Quizzes
  4. »
  5. Literature Trivia
  6. »
  7. Authors D-G

Fun Trivia
One of America's favorite 20th century poets was especially associated with the New England settings of many of his poems, including 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' and 'Mending Wall'.
12 Robert Frost quizzes and 145 Robert Frost trivia questions.
1.
The Road Not Taken Taken Apart
  "The Road Not Taken" Taken Apart   best quiz  
Fun Fill-It
 20 Qns
Many of us have read or studied Robert Frost's famous poem at some time. Let's see how well you remember it. There is one word missing from each line for you match and complete.
Very Easy, 20 Qns, Midget40, Feb 19 24
Very Easy
Midget40 gold member
Feb 19 24
132 plays
2.
Picturing Robert Frost
  Picturing Robert Frost   best quiz  
Photo Quiz
 10 Qns
Robert Frost was an American poet who lived most of his life in New Hampshire. This quiz is about ten of his poems, some famous, some not. The photographs will give you some hints.
Easier, 10 Qns, CmdrK, Jun 08 13
Recommended for grades: 7,8,9,10
Easier
CmdrK gold member
1390 plays
3.
  Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This quiz is all about one of my favorite poems, Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening."
Average, 15 Qns, morrigan, Jul 27 21
Recommended for grades: 7,8,9,10
Average
morrigan
Jul 27 21
3026 plays
4.
  Mending Wall   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Like many of Robert Frost's poems, "Mending Wall" uses a rural New England setting to explore metaphysical issues while evoking a sense of the timeless immediacy of the moments he describes. And there are familiar quotes!
Average, 10 Qns, looney_tunes, Mar 28 13
Recommended for grades: 7,8,9,10
Average
looney_tunes editor
1503 plays
5.
  The Poetry of Robert Frost   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This quiz provides a brief survey of the poetry of Robert Frost.
Average, 15 Qns, skylarb, Jul 02 20
Recommended for grades: 7,8,9,10
Average
skylarb
Jul 02 20
339 plays
6.
  The Ultimate Robert Frost: American Poet Quiz   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Robert Frost spent much of his life in New England and was named Vermont's poet laureate. How much do you know about the man's poems? Play this quiz and see.
Average, 10 Qns, CmdrK, Aug 14 22
Average
CmdrK gold member
Aug 14 22
149 plays
7.
  Starting Out on a Frosty Trail   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
How well do you know the first lines of Robert Frost's poetry?
Average, 10 Qns, baban, Jan 17 10
Recommended for grades: 7,8,9,10
Average
baban gold member
378 plays
8.
  "The Death of the Hired Man"--by Robert Frost    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"The Death of the Hired Man" is a sobering poem from a poetic master of the 20th Century, Robert Frost. Its legacy is the now common expression "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." The quiz celebrates this work
Difficult, 10 Qns, hitachi, Mar 28 15
Difficult
hitachi
477 plays
9.
  Robert Frost Poetry    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I love Robert Frost's poetry and I have been wishing that there were more Frost quizzes on the site.
Tough, 10 Qns, jaknife1200, Apr 23 04
Tough
jaknife1200
1047 plays
10.
  "The Witch Of Coos"    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
If you think Frost wrote only such things as "Birches" and "Mending Wall", here's a poetic ghost story he did!
Average, 15 Qns, tjoebigham, Jun 30 03
Average
tjoebigham
288 plays
trivia question Quick Question
Which of the following is NOT a poem by Robert Frost?

From Quiz "The Poetry of Robert Frost"




11.
  Robert Frost Test    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here is a short quiz on a few of my favorite poems by one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century.
Tough, 10 Qns, jericha, Oct 19 10
Tough
jericha
1022 plays
12.
  Great Robert Frost Poems    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Robert Frost is my favorite American poet. See how much you know about his great poems.
Difficult, 10 Qns, littlewoman2, Aug 12 04
Difficult
littlewoman2
812 plays
Related Topics
  American Literature [Literature] (51 quizzes)

  Poetry [Literature] (160 quizzes)


Robert Frost Trivia Questions

1. In 'Flower-Gathering' the narrator states, "I left you in the _____". What time of the day did the narrator leave?

From Quiz
Starting Out on a Frosty Trail

Answer: morning

"I left you in the morning, And in the morning glow You walked a way beside me To make me sad to go." 'Flower-Gathering' was first published in 1913 in Frost's first book 'A Boy's Will'. This collection of his poetry was published in London, England.

2. The poem "Mending Wall" is thought to have been inspired by the years Robert Frost spent as a poultry farmer in Derry, New Hampshire. Where did he live when he wrote the poem? (Hint: surprising for a New England poet)

From Quiz Mending Wall

Answer: Dymock, Gloucestershire

In 1912 Robert Frost moved to England to concentrate on writing full-time. It was there that he wrote the poem "Mending Wall", which was published in 1914 by the British publishers David Nutt and Company, the second of his books to be published there before an American publisher accepted his work. The Frost family lived in all four of these places, as well as a number of others around New England (and, for some time, in Ann Arbor, Michigan).

3. Does the house belong to a man or woman?

From Quiz Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Answer: Man

"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though" This poem has a typical a-a-b-a rhyme. To hear this, repeat the first four line's last words: know, though, here and snow. This rhyming scheme is called iambic tetrameter.

4. What is the literal, not symbolic, theme of "After Apple Picking"?

From Quiz Great Robert Frost Poems

Answer: Sleep

The narrator mentions sleep several times throughout the poem, and most readers feel that Frost uses sleep as a metaphor for death.

5. Frost's poetry is primarily based upon New England life. Where was he actually born?

From Quiz Robert Frost Poetry

Answer: California

Frost was actually born in California. He did wind up moving to Lawrence, Massachusetts when he was 11.

6. What kind of 'creepy-crawly' did the narrator find in the poem "Design"?

From Quiz Robert Frost

Answer: spider

The answer can be found in the first line of the poem: "I found a dimpled spider, fat and white," FYI: Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco, California.

7. What meter is the poem written in?

From Quiz "The Death of the Hired Man"--by Robert Frost

Answer: iambic pentameter

Though Robert Frost didn't always write in rhyme, he always wrote with some type of technical challenge. On free verse, Frost once said "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."

8. When the narrator stays at a New Hampshire farm for the night, who owns it?

From Quiz "The Witch Of Coos"

Answer: a witch and her son

Pretty much a "gimme" considering the title! Coos, by the way, is a New Hampshire county.

9. What color was the wood in "The Road Not Taken"?

From Quiz Robert Frost: American Poet

Answer: yellow

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..." Possibly a birch forest in New Hampshire in the autumn when the leaves of birch trees (the primary deciduous tree in southern New Hampshire) turn yellow. The poem was listed first in his "Mountain Interval" collection, published in 1916. It dealt with making choices and realizing one may not have a chance to reprise them.

10. "Something there is that doesn't love a ____" what?

From Quiz The Poetry of Robert Frost

Answer: wall

This is the opening line of "Mending Wall", which continues: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast." The poem uses the refrain "good fences make good neighbors" but questions whether walls close off friendship among neighbors: "Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense." "Mending Wall" was the first of the poems in Frost's "North of Boston" collection, which was published in 1914.

11. In "O hushed _______ morning mild", which month are we reading about?

From Quiz Starting Out on a Frosty Trail

Answer: October

"O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all." 'October' was also part of the collection in 'A Boy's Will' (1913), published when Frost was thirty-nine years old. It was after this collection of poetry was published that Frost became well known, even though he had had his first poem published when he was nineteen.

12. What is the name of the collection of poems in which Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" was first published? (Hint: geographical reference)

From Quiz Mending Wall

Answer: "North of Boston"

These were Robert Frost's first four collections of poetry. "North of Boston" (1914 in England; 1915 in USA) was the second to be published, although the American publishers released it a few months before "A Boy's Will" (1913 in England; 1915 in USA). "New Hampshire" (1923), Frost's fourth book of poems, was the one for which he received the first of four Pulitzer Prizes. It includes the oft-quoted "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening", another pastoral incident used to evoke larger issues.

13. Where is the house?"

From Quiz Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Answer: The village

"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though." This poem is one of Frost's more popular poems, and was published in 1923 in "New Hampshire." "New Hampshire" was a Pulitzer Prize winning book containing other popular poems, such are "Fire and Ice" and "Nothing Gold Can Stay."

14. How big are the blueberries in the aptly titled "Blueberries"?

From Quiz Great Robert Frost Poems

Answer: As big as the end of your thumb

Many of Frost's poems contained vivid imagery of nature, both benevolent and violent.

15. This poem's title originally comes from a line in Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth." Which poem is it?

From Quiz Robert Frost Poetry

Answer: Out, Out

This is easily one of my favorite Frost poems. The personification of the chainsaw in this poem is chilling.

16. In the "Mending Wall" poem, what kind of trees did the narrator have?

From Quiz Robert Frost

Answer: apple

The answer can be found in the 24th line of the poem: "He is all pine and I am apple orchard." FYI: He made his living as a farmer who would write into the late hours of the night.

17. How did Mary meet Warren at the door?

From Quiz "The Death of the Hired Man"--by Robert Frost

Answer: On tip-toe

"Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on tip-toe down the darkened passage To meet him in the doorway with the news And put him on his guard."

18. What does he say she can do?

From Quiz "The Witch Of Coos"

Answer: make a table kick like a mule

The son says she can "make a common table rear and kick with two legs like an army mule."

19. Can you see what the farmer bought with the insurance money he received after burning down his house in "The Star-Splitter"?

From Quiz Robert Frost: American Poet

Answer: telescope

"The Star-Splitter" is an odd poem; the narrator apparently is ready to forgive thieves operating in his town or his neighbor burning down his own house. The narrator seems to have rationalized the arson by deciding that there was little difference between a farm being lost to fire or the auctioneer's gavel. The neighbor used the insurance money to buy an expensive telescope and coaxed the narrator to look through it. They named it the Star-Splitter "Because it didn't do a thing but split a star in two or three..." (I have no idea what that means.)

20. "My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree". What is the narrator doing up the tree?

From Quiz Starting Out on a Frosty Trail

Answer: Picking apples

"My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough." 'After Apple-Picking' was published in the second book, 'North of Boston' (1914). The apples are thought to be a metaphor for opportunities, when the narrator is considering his life that has passed.

21. What is the literary form of the poem "Mending Walls" by Robert Frost?

From Quiz Mending Wall

Answer: blank verse

Blank verse is unrhymed (usually iambic) pentameter. This poem is unrhymed pentameter, although Frost varies the feet widely from the rhythmic 'da DA' of the iamb. This allows him to reflect the patterns of speech, action and thought being described, while periodically returning us to the comforting familiarity of the iamb. This playful approach to the form reflects the narrator's urge to play with ideas, and to challenge easy assumptions.

22. Why does the narrator stop by the woods?

From Quiz Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Answer: To see the woods fill up with snow

"He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow." John T. Ogilvie says this about this poem: "What appears to be "simple" is shown to be not really simple, what appears to be innocent not really innocent.... The poet is fascinated and lulled by the empty wastes of white and black. The repetition of "sleep" in the final two lines suggests that he may succumb to the influences that are at work. There is no reason to suppose that these influences are benignant. It is, after all, "the darkest evening of the year," and the poet is alone "between the woods and frozen lake." His one bond with the security and warmth of the "outer" world, the "little horse" who wants to be about his errand, is an unsure one. The ascription of "lovely" to this scene of desolate woods, effacing snow, and black night complicates rather than alleviates the mood when we consider how pervasive are the connotations of dangerous isolation and menacing death." From "From Woods to Stars: A Pattern of Imagery in Robert Frost's Poetry." South Atlantic Quarterly. Winter 1959.

23. In "Mending Wall," when do the narrator and his neighbor find and repair the breaks in the fence?

From Quiz Great Robert Frost Poems

Answer: Spring

The narrator doesn't understand why nature hates the wall, but every spring, he and his neighbor repair the fence between them once again.

24. "The land was ours before we were the land's" comes from what Frost poem?

From Quiz Robert Frost Poetry

Answer: The Gift Outright

"The Gift Outright" is a poem about colonial times.

25. In the poem "Home Burial", whose death is the wife mourning?

From Quiz Robert Frost

Answer: her child's

In the 32nd line: "But the child's mound----" FYI: Frost became known as the poet of New England.

26. When did Silas leave the last time?

From Quiz "The Death of the Hired Man"--by Robert Frost

Answer: At the last hay time

Warren speaking: " 'But I'll not have the fellow back,' he said. 'I told him so last haying, didn't I? "If he left then," I said, "that ended it." ' "

27. What is her spirit contact?

From Quiz "The Witch Of Coos"

Answer: Ralle the Sioux Control

Ralle was an Indian Agent watching over the Sioux tribe. The great Houdini exposed fraudulent mediums, while Doyle was a devout Spiritualist. Clarence is the angel from "It's A Wonderful Life".

28. How does the narrator of the poem "Tree at My Window" feel about the tree?

From Quiz Robert Frost: American Poet

Answer: a sense of kinship

Frost wrote several poems about trees or used them as part of a story but they were usually just a prop to tell a human's tale. But in this poem he felt a kinship with the tree; he had watched the tree through his window over the years and the tree had watched him. He saw a likeness between them in that the tree was concerned with its own head being affected by the weather and the narrator being concerned with the 'weather' inside his own head. The tree in question was a maple tree that Frost saw every day from his bedroom window; it sat on the south lawn of his farm in Derry, New Hampshire. Years after Frost died that tree did too (struck by lightning I believe); a new tree has been planted there to replace it.

29. "When I see ____ bend to left and right / Across the lines of straighter darker trees, / I like to think some boy's been swinging them." What word is missing from this Robert Frost poem?

From Quiz The Poetry of Robert Frost

Answer: birches

These are the opening lines of "Birches", which was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly" and later included in Robert Frost's 1916 collection "Mountain Interval". The 59-line poem concludes: "I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

30. In the poem 'The Road Not Taken' how many roads diverged in the wood?

From Quiz Starting Out on a Frosty Trail

Answer: Two

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;" 'The Road Not Taken' was published in 'Mountain Interval'(1916) after Frost's return to America. The poem explores choices that are made, literally and figuratively.

This is category 8908
Last Updated Mar 23 2024 5:46 AM
play trivia = Top 5% Rated Quiz, take trivia quiz Top 10% Rated Quiz, test trivia quiz Top 20% Rated Quiz, popular trivia A Well Rated Quiz
new quizzes = added recently, editor pick = Editor's Pick editor = FunTrivia Editor gold = Gold Member

Teachers / educators: FunTrivia welcomes the use of our website and quizzes in the classroom as a teaching aid or for preparing and testing students. See our education section. Our quizzes are printable and may be used as question sheets by k-12 teachers, parents, and home schoolers.

 ·  All questions, answers, and quiz content on this website is copyright FunTrivia, Inc and may not be reproduced without permission. Any images from TV shows and movies are copyright their studios, and are being used under "fair use" for commentary and education.