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Quiz about Favourite Lines from Great Poems

Favourite Lines from Great Poems Quiz

Questions about some of my favourite lines from my favourite poems. Should be easy if you have the same taste in poetry as me...!! Otherwise, I can only apologise :)

A multiple-choice quiz by vh219. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
vh219

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
94,920

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. From which of the poems of John Keats is the following line taken: "Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms / Alone and palely loitering"? Hint

On The Eve of St. Agnes

Ode to a Nighingale

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

To Autumn

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who wrote the following: "And all that's best in dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes" ? Hint

Lord Byron

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is the name of the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which starts: "I met a traveller from an antique land / Who said 'two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Lie in the desert" ?

Answer: (One Word (the name of the ancient King who features in the poem))

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who wrote these lines: "Exultation is the going / Of an inland soul to sea / Past the houses -- past the headlands -- / Into deep eternity --"? Hint

Sylvia Plath

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Christina Rossetti

Emily Dickinson

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone / Prevent the dog from barking with a ______" - Fill in the blank in this line from a poem by W.H. Auden.

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of the "war poets" wrote the following famous lines: "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there is some corner of a foreign field / That is forever England" ? Hint

Wilfred Owen

Charles Sorley

Siegfried Sassoon

Rupert Brooke

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Dulce et Decorum est, pro patria mori" is a famous line from a poem by Wilfred Owen. But it's actually originally from a poem by which Latin author? Hint

Ovid

Catullus

Virgil

Horace

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Question 8 of 10

8. "When I am an old woman, I shall wear _____" - what colour, according to the poem by Jenny Joseph? Hint

Violet

Orange

Purple

Crimson

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Question 9 of 10

9. "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" is the English translation of a quotation from a famous poem. What language was the poem written in originally? Hint

Spanish

Portuguese

French

Italian

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Question 10 of 10

10. Where, according to Coleridge, did Kubla Khan have "a stately pleasure dome" built?

Answer: (One Word)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. From which of the poems of John Keats is the following line taken: "Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms / Alone and palely loitering"?

Answer: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

I just love the thought of someone loitering "palely"...!

2. Who wrote the following: "And all that's best in dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes" ?

Answer: Lord Byron

It's from "She Walks In Beauty".

3. What is the name of the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which starts: "I met a traveller from an antique land / Who said 'two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Lie in the desert" ?

Answer: Ozymandias

The poem is about a ruined statue of a great King, found in the desert. There's something definitely sinister about it.

4. Who wrote these lines: "Exultation is the going / Of an inland soul to sea / Past the houses -- past the headlands -- / Into deep eternity --"?

Answer: Emily Dickinson

5. "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone / Prevent the dog from barking with a ______" - Fill in the blank in this line from a poem by W.H. Auden.

Answer: juicy bone

This poem is in the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral" - it's read out at the funeral.

6. Which of the "war poets" wrote the following famous lines: "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there is some corner of a foreign field / That is forever England" ?

Answer: Rupert Brooke

Brooke died in 1915 of blood poisoning from a small wound that had been neglected.

7. "Dulce et Decorum est, pro patria mori" is a famous line from a poem by Wilfred Owen. But it's actually originally from a poem by which Latin author?

Answer: Horace

In Horace's poem, the sentiment is genuine. In Owen's poem, on the other hand, the quote comes at the end of a tirade against war, and is in fact a satirical attack on the glorification of war.

8. "When I am an old woman, I shall wear _____" - what colour, according to the poem by Jenny Joseph?

Answer: Purple

The next line is "With a red hat that doesn't go and doesn't suit me".

9. "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" is the English translation of a quotation from a famous poem. What language was the poem written in originally?

Answer: Italian

It's from Dante's "Divina Commedia" - the line in Italian is "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate".

10. Where, according to Coleridge, did Kubla Khan have "a stately pleasure dome" built?

Answer: Xanadu

The opening lines of the poem are "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea".

Source: Author vh219

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