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Quiz about A Little Something About Poetry

A Little Something About Poetry Quiz

Just a few questions about some poetry.

A multiple-choice quiz by pennie1478. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
pennie1478

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
330,463

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
479

Question 1 of 10

1. What poet used his own poem "Requiem" for the epitaph on his gravestone? Hint

Wallace Stevens

Paul Dunbar

Robert Louis Stevenson

William Cullent Bryant

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is missing from this line in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": 'The ______ tolls the knell of parting day'? Hint

landscape

curfew

tower

morn

3. In "Convergence of the Twain", what deadly ship disaster was Thomas Hardy describing when he said, 'And as the smart ship grew in stature, grace, and hue in shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too'?
Hint

USS Arizona

Lusitania

Titanic

Hindenburg

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Question 4 of 10

4. "I love thee with a love I seemed to lose." Which poet is famous for this beautiful line? Hint

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning

Shakespeare

Emily Dickinson

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Question 5 of 10

5. What is the missing body part in Ben Jonson's poem, "Song: to Celia": 'Drink to me only with thine ____'? Hint

hands

mouth

eyes

ears

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is the missing word in the poem title "Still I ____" by Maya Angelou? Hint

Rise

Linger

Wait

Laugh

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Question 7 of 10

7. The poet e.e. cummings wrote a poem about which famous rodeo cowboy(girl)? Hint

Belle Starr

Annie Oakley

Buffalo Bill Cody

Wild Bill Hickock

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Question 8 of 10

8. What is the missing word in this line from the poem "The Gardener" by Rabindranath Tagore: "Your ___________ eyes are sad"? Hint

questioning

pleasureful

limitless

flowering

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Question 9 of 10

9. "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'" is a line written by what poet? Hint

Robert Burns

Edgar Allan Poe

Clement Clark Moore

Paul Verlaine

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Question 10 of 10

10. "The Tyger" was written by which poet? Hint

e.e. cummings

Emily Dickinson

William Blake

Sylvia Plath

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What poet used his own poem "Requiem" for the epitaph on his gravestone?

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, "Requiem" is used as the epitaph for his gravestone. Stevenson wrote "Requiem" fourteen years before his death.

2. What is missing from this line in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": 'The ______ tolls the knell of parting day'?

Answer: curfew

Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard" is one of the most widely quoted of all English poems. The poem referred to bodies buried in a church cemetery and contained thirty-two stanzas including the epitaph. Gray completed the poem in 1751, but it has been revised at least five times since it was first completed.

Answer: Titanic

Hardy's description of the 1912 "Titanic" disaster is solemn and direct. The poem, published in 1915, consisted of eleven stanzas with three lines to each stanza.

4. "I love thee with a love I seemed to lose." Which poet is famous for this beautiful line?

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barret Browning wrote the poem "How Do I Love Thee" to her fianc�, Robert Browning, months before they were married. The poem is in Browning's book "Sonnets from the Portuguese".

5. What is the missing body part in Ben Jonson's poem, "Song: to Celia": 'Drink to me only with thine ____'?

Answer: eyes

Ben Jonson grew up as a friend of William Shakespeare. "Song: To Celia" is heralded as a masterpiece of its time. Soon after Jonson had the poem published, a composer turned the poem into a song. The poem can be found in the 1993 edition of "The Norton Anthology of English Literature".

6. What is the missing word in the poem title "Still I ____" by Maya Angelou?

Answer: Rise

Maya Angelou put her perseverance, her spark, and her courage into this poem as she told her readers that they may grind her into the dirt, but still she will rise.

7. The poet e.e. cummings wrote a poem about which famous rodeo cowboy(girl)?

Answer: Buffalo Bill Cody

"Portrait" isn't a traditionally written poem. It is an eleven line poem with some lines only containing one word and other lines running together. The poem also goes by the title "Buffalo Bill's".

8. What is the missing word in this line from the poem "The Gardener" by Rabindranath Tagore: "Your ___________ eyes are sad"?

Answer: questioning

Most of Rabindranath's poems were initially written in Bengali and then translated into English when his poetry arrived in America.

9. "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'" is a line written by what poet?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

"The Raven" is considered the most famous of Edgar Allan Poe's poems. It is the story of a lost love with the raven symbolizing a lover's misfortune.

10. "The Tyger" was written by which poet?

Answer: William Blake

William Blake wrote "The Tyger" about the Industrial Revolution. Blake's poem is known as the most anthologized poem in English. The poem is also known as "Tyger, Tyger".

Source: Author pennie1478

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