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Books of Poetry Trivia Quiz

Rather than dealing with individual poems, this quiz asks you to identify the author of certain books of poetry

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
27,470

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
890

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'A Season In Hell' Hint

Paul Verlaine

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Francois Villon

Arthur Rimbaud

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'The Flowers of Evil' Hint

Robert Burns

Rainer Maria Rilke

Charles Baudelaire

John Clare

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'Sonnets from the Portugese' Hint

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Emily Dickinson

Amy Lowell

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'Leaves of Grass' Hint

John Masefield

Walt Whitman

Ted Hughes

Ezra Pound

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'Idylls of the King' Hint

A.E. Housman

William Butler Yeats

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Vachel Lindsay

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' Hint

William Wordsworth

John Keats

Lord Byron

Percy Shelley

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'Tamerlane' and 'Al Aaraaf' Hint

Henry David Thoreau

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Edgar Allan Poe

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'North of Boston' Hint

Carl Sandburg

Robert Frost

John Greenleaf Whittier

Alexander Pope

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'Ariel' Hint

Rudyard Kipling

Marianne Moore

Sylvia Plath

e. e. cummings

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'And Still I Rise' Hint

Wilfrid Owen

Rupert Brooke

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'A Season In Hell'

Answer: Arthur Rimbaud

His output as a poet ended early; so did his life. Apparently, a bit of a wild man.

2. 'The Flowers of Evil'

Answer: Charles Baudelaire

His most famous work.

3. 'Sonnets from the Portugese'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

'How do I love thee ...' and so forth.

4. 'Leaves of Grass'

Answer: Walt Whitman

Considered a milestone.

5. 'Idylls of the King'

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Inter-connected poems.

6. 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'

Answer: Lord Byron

Interesting life.

7. 'Tamerlane' and 'Al Aaraaf'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Early works.

8. 'North of Boston'

Answer: Robert Frost

Frost, the New Englander born in San Francisco.

9. 'Ariel'

Answer: Sylvia Plath

Poor, sad lady.

10. 'And Still I Rise'

Answer: Maya Angelou

Remarkable life.

Source: Author robert362

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