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Quiz about 16th 18th Century British Poetry

16th - 18th Century British Poetry Quiz

Identify the poet from either the lines or title provided.

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

Author
RavenHex

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
71,422

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
759

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Question 1 of 10

1. 'Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, alas, I may no more; The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that further come behind' Hint

Sir Walter Raleigh

Thomas Wyatt

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Robert Southwell

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who wrote 'The Faerie Queen'? Hint

Sir Philip Sidney

Earl Grey

John Lyly

Edmund Spenser

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Question 3 of 10

3. What famed Elizabethan playwright also penned 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'? Hint

William Shakespeare

Sir Henry Wotton

Thomas Campion

Christopher Marlowe

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Question 4 of 10

4. By way of response, who wrote 'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd'? Hint

George Gascoigne

Sir Walter Raleigh

Queen Elizabeth I

Charlotte Kildare

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot...' Hint

John Donne

Ben Johnson

Robert Hayman

Robert Herrick

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world...' Hint

Edmund Waller

John Milton

George Herbert

Anne Bradstreet

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage...' Hint

Richard Lovelace

John Dryden

Andrew Marvell

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who wrote 'The Rape of the Lock'? Hint

Jonathan Swift

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who is perhaps most famous for his 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'? Hint

Oliver Goldsmith

Robert Burns

William Cowper

Thomas Gray

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'O Rose, thou art sick...' Hint

Oscar Wilde

William Collins

Lucy Gray

William Blake

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, alas, I may no more; The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that further come behind'

Answer: Thomas Wyatt

Scholars believe that Wyatt wrote this for Anne Boleyn, formerly his mistress, second wife of Henry VIII, and mother to Queen Elizabeth I.

2. Who wrote 'The Faerie Queen'?

Answer: Edmund Spenser

This poem was a tribute to Queen Elizabeth I and a thinly veiled slam against the Catholic church.

3. What famed Elizabethan playwright also penned 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'?

Answer: Christopher Marlowe

What promised to be a brilliant career was cut short by his untimely death in a bar room brawl.

4. By way of response, who wrote 'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd'?

Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

5. 'Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot...'

Answer: John Donne

6. 'Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world...'

Answer: John Milton

Opening lines to Milton's epic 'Paradise Lost'.

7. 'Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage...'

Answer: Richard Lovelace

Famous lines from 'To Althea, from Prison'.

8. Who wrote 'The Rape of the Lock'?

Answer: Alexander Pope

Pope's mock-epic poem was based on an actual event. The title refers to the abduction (rape) of a lock of hair.

9. Who is perhaps most famous for his 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'?

Answer: Thomas Gray

10. 'O Rose, thou art sick...'

Answer: William Blake

Opening lines of 'The Sick Rose' from Blake's 'Songs of Experience'.

Source: Author RavenHex

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