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Quiz about In the Forests of the Night
Quiz about In the Forests of the Night

In the Forests of the Night Trivia Quiz


Have you ever wanted to be a poet? Why not learn from these best of British? All questions will be multiple choice.

A multiple-choice quiz by DoveHouse. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
DoveHouse
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
356,198
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
990
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 172 (9/10), dellastreet (10/10), Guest 46 (8/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. '_____,_____ burning bright,
In the forests of the night.'

What animal is missing from William Blake's signature poem?
Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. 'Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried ___
____
__ _______'

What phrase finishes this well known poem by Tennyson?
Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. 'When chapman billies leave the street,
And drouthy neebors neebors meet,
As market-days are wearing late,
And folk begin to tak the gate;
While we sit bousin, at the nappy,
And gettin fou and unco happy,
We think na on the lang Scots miles...'

This is from the poem 'Tam O' Shanter'. Who was the Noted Celtic bard who penned this poem?
Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. 'Sailing to Byzantium' was one of WB Yeats' most famous poems:

'____
__ __
_______
___ ___
___ The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
- Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon‐falls, the mackerel‐crowded seas...'

What is the missing first line, which was also used as the title of a film in 2007, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin?
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. 'O, To be in England
Now that April 's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware...'

This is an excerpt of a poem by Robert Browning.

What title does this poem go by?
Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. 'It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?'

This is the first verse of the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.

Who wrote this epic seven part masterpiece?
Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. 'I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills...'

Possibly one of the best known poems of all time, written by William Wordsworth.

What is the flowery title of this poem?
Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This is a paragraph from 'Meditation XVII' by John Donne.

'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...'

The latter part of this paragraph is, in itself, also the title of a famous novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1940.

What is this famous title and phrase?
Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. 'What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to _____
___ _____'

This well know line is from W.H. Davies' poem 'Leisure'.

What words are missing?
Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. 'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor...'

These are the opening lines of which famous 'supernatural' poem by Walter de la Mare?
Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. '_____,_____ burning bright, In the forests of the night.' What animal is missing from William Blake's signature poem?

Answer: Tiger

This excerpt comes from the poem 'The Tiger,' or as it was originally entitled 'The Tyger'. Blake was a Romantic poet of the 18th and 19th century. 'The Tyger' was published in 1794 as part of a collection of poems entitled 'Songs of Experience'. It remains his best known piece of poetry and one of the most famous pieces of British poetry.
2. 'Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side; "The curse is come upon me," cried ___ ____ __ _______' What phrase finishes this well known poem by Tennyson?

Answer: The Lady Of Shalott

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was one of England's greatest Romantic poets and a favourite of Queen Victoria, being Poet Laureate throughout much of her reign.
'The Lady of Shalott' is one of his best known works, published in his second anthology, in 1833.
Other noted poems of Tennyson include: 'In Memoriam', 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'Maud'.
3. 'When chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neebors neebors meet, As market-days are wearing late, And folk begin to tak the gate; While we sit bousin, at the nappy, And gettin fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles...' This is from the poem 'Tam O' Shanter'. Who was the Noted Celtic bard who penned this poem?

Answer: Robert Burns

Robert Burns is Scotland's national and best loved poet. In fact he is so popular that there is an official holiday dedicated to him (Burns' Night) on 25th January, Burns' birthday, during which 'the Haggis' is piped in.
Burns was a very prolific poet whose works often covered Scottish folklore and whose poems were often adapted to music.
4. 'Sailing to Byzantium' was one of WB Yeats' most famous poems: '____ __ __ _______ ___ ___ ___ The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations - at their song, The salmon‐falls, the mackerel‐crowded seas...' What is the missing first line, which was also used as the title of a film in 2007, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin?

Answer: That is no country for old men

WB Yeats, a noted Irish poet and writer, was one of the leading writers of the early 20th century.
His poem 'Sailing to Byzantium' was published in a collection of poems by Yeats in 1928. It is a metaphorical work, based on man's ideas of eternal life.

The film 'No Country for Old Men' is actually based on a book of the same title, by Cormac McCarthy, who, in turn, took his title from 'Sailing To Byzantium'.
5. 'O, To be in England Now that April 's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware...' This is an excerpt of a poem by Robert Browning. What title does this poem go by?

Answer: Home Thoughts from Abroad

Browning wrote 'Home Thoughts From Abroad' in 1845, whilst staying in Italy. He was married to Elizabeth Barrett, a poet in her own right, who suffered from ill health, hence the Brownings spending long stretches of time in Italy. Other notable works of Browning's include 'The Pied Piper Of Hamelin' and ' Porphyria's Lover.'
Browning died in 1889 in Italy aged 77 years old.
6. 'It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?' This is the first verse of the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. Who wrote this epic seven part masterpiece?

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a Romantic poet, born in Devon in 1772. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' was published in 1798 in his anthology 'Lyrical Ballads'. It tells the tale of an old sea-faring man who accidentally shoots an albatross. To sailors this act is an atrocity as albatrosses were classed as good luck birds who brought good sailing weather.
Other notable works by Coleridge include 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel'.
7. 'I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills...' Possibly one of the best known poems of all time, written by William Wordsworth. What is the flowery title of this poem?

Answer: Daffodils

William Wordsworth was a Georgian Romantic poet and a good friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Together they were the founding members of the Romantic movement in poetry. Wordsworth lived most of his later life in the Lake District, where he was classed as one of the leading 'Lake Poets'. He lived in Dove cottage, which is now a museum to him.
8. This is a paragraph from 'Meditation XVII' by John Donne. 'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...' The latter part of this paragraph is, in itself, also the title of a famous novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1940. What is this famous title and phrase?

Answer: For Whom the Bell Tolls

John Donne was a poet, lawyer and priest, born in London in 1572. 'Meditation XVII' is the most well known part of 'Devotion XVII' which in turn is from 'Devotions upon Emergent Occasions' written in 1624 and written in honour of the future King of England, Charles I.
The phrase 'For whom the bell tolls' has been used in several areas of popular culture, the most noted of these being Hemingway's novel and also the title of a well known Metallica song.
9. 'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to _____ ___ _____' This well know line is from W.H. Davies' poem 'Leisure'. What words are missing?

Answer: Stand and stare

Davies was a Welsh poet and tramp, born in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He led an eventful life losing half his leg in a train accident whilst on the way to the Klondike, Canada, which led him to become a poet. The poem was part of an anthology entitled 'Songs of Joy and Others' published in 1911.
His story can be read in his book 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp', the work from which the British prog rock band 'Supertramp' took their name.
10. 'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor...' These are the opening lines of which famous 'supernatural' poem by Walter de la Mare?

Answer: The Listeners

Walter de la Mare was a well-loved English poet born in 1873. He was noted for his child-like use of imagination in his poetry. 'The Listeners' came from a collection of poems of the same name and has a slightly ghostly theme. De la Mare also wrote ghost stories and children's literature.
Source: Author DoveHouse

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