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1. Robert Browning is particularly well known for his mastery of what form of poetry?
2. Robert Browning's career began well enough, but then he temporarily tanked his reputation with the March 1840 publication of what obscure narrative poem featuring a 13th century troubadour from Dante's "Purgatorio"?
3. Which of Robert Browning's works contained a staggering 21,000 lines?
4. Which of the following collections is NOT by Robert Browning?
5. What poem by Robert Browning takes its title from a line in a Shakespeare play and inspired a series of novels by Stephen King?
6. Who had a "heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad, / Too easily impressed"?
7. In which Robert Browning poem does a man strangle a woman to death with her own hair?
8. "If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise." This is the moral of what Robert Browning poem, in which the dishonoring of a promise led to the disappearance of an entire town's children?
9. In which Robert Browning poem does the speaker ruminate upon his hatred for a fellow monk named Brother Lawrence?
10. In what Robert Browning poem does a woman speak to an apothecary who is preparing a poison she plans to use to murder her feminine rivals?
11. Robert Browning's poem "Fra Lippo Lippi" is written in what form, which employs non-rhyming iambic pentameter?
12. Robert Browning is known for using narrators whose versions of events cannot necessarily be trusted. In literary criticism, what do we call this type of narrator?
13. What Browning poem begins:
"I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;
I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three;
'Good speed!'' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
'Speed!' echoed the wall to us galloping through;
Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,
And into the midnight we galloped abreast."
14. In his poem "The Lost Leader", what Romantic poet and author of "The Prelude" does Robert Browning berate for abandoning the liberal cause?
15. "Oh, to be in ____ / Now that April's there." What word is missing from this line of Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts, from Abroad"?
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