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From My Favorite Poets... Trivia Quiz

I've chosen a few lines from some of my favorite poems, and it is your job to match the quote to the poet.

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

Author
shechamellion

Time
4 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
211,429

Updated
Sep 30 23

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Question 1 of 10

1. Whose poem contains the verse;
"I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year,
And the first meadow-flowers appear."?

Hint

Alan Alda

Bob Seger

Alan Seeger

Pete Seager

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which poet wrote:
"If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,
And treat those two impostors just the same..."?
Hint

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Richard Kimball

Rudyard Kipling

Robert Browning

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Question 3 of 10

3. This poem begins:
"There are strange things done
in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails
have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold..."
Who wrote it? Hint

Robert Louis Stevenson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning

Robert W. Service

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who wrote these well known lines?
"Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."? Hint

Thomas Gray

Bob Dylan

Dylan Thomas

Thomas Hardy

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which eccentric poet penned the words:
"My Captain does not answer,
his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm,
he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound,
its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip
the victor ship
comes in with object won."? Hint

William Blake

Wallace Stevens

Walt Whitman

William Carlos Williams

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Question 6 of 10

6. Do you know whose poem the following verse comes from?
"And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost."
Hint

John Keats

James Tate

William Butler Yeats

Thomas Bateson

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Question 7 of 10

7. From whose poetry does this provocative verse come?
"Unprovoked and awful charges--
even so the she-bear fights,
Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons--
even so the cobra bites,
Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
And the victim writhes in anguish--
like the Jesuit with the squaw!" Hint

George Stirling

Robert Graves

Rudyard Kipling

Richard Hugo

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Question 8 of 10

8. These famous words were written by which well-known poet?
"Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I--I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." Hint

Robert Burns

Robert Redford

Robert Frost

Robert Browning

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which melancholy poet said:
"...Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell"? Hint

Emily Dickinson

Erica Jong

Emily Bronte

Elizabeth Jennings

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which American poet said?:
"When I compare
What I have lost with what I have gained..." Hint

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Herman Melville

Henry Miller

Henry David Thoreau

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Whose poem contains the verse; "I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered hill, When Spring comes round again this year, And the first meadow-flowers appear."?

Answer: Alan Seeger

It is from the poem "I Have A Rendezvous With Death" which he wrote in 1915.

2. Which poet wrote: "If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same..."?

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

From the inspirational poem titled "If". Some of Kipling's other famous works include the children's novels "The Jungle Book", "Just So Stories", and "Kim". He was an Englishman born in India, who is often remembered (and not well liked) for his glorification of the British Empire in India.

3. This poem begins: "There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold..." Who wrote it?

Answer: Robert W. Service

From the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee". Robert W. Service spent the years 1903-1912 in the Yukon Territory. It was here that he was inspired to write many of his poems about frontier life during the Gold Rush years.

4. Who wrote these well known lines? "Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light."?

Answer: Dylan Thomas

From the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night". In 1934, by age twenty, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas wrote and published his first book of poems. He supported himself and his family in his later years by giving lectures across the United States. He was a chronic alcoholic in fact, it was his alcoholism which eventually led to his death in 1953.

5. Which eccentric poet penned the words: "My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won."?

Answer: Walt Whitman

From the poem "Oh Captain! My Captain!" which he wrote about President Lincoln after his assassination. During the Civil War, Walt Whitman ministered to wounded soldiers, Union and Confederate alike. After the war, in 1865, he was appointed a clerkship in the Office of Indian Affairs, but lost it when it was learned that he had written what was considered an indecent book titled "Leaves Of Grass".

6. Do you know whose poem the following verse comes from? "And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost."

Answer: William Butler Yeats

From the poem "Never Give All The Heart". Irish poet W.B. Yeats was heavily influenced by the Irish political movements of the early 1900s. In 1916, the Easter Rebellion awoke his sympathy and some of his best political poems. After the Irish Free State was formed Yeats served six years in the Senate.

7. From whose poetry does this provocative verse come? "Unprovoked and awful charges-- even so the she-bear fights, Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons-- even so the cobra bites, Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw And the victim writhes in anguish-- like the Jesuit with the squaw!"

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

From his prophetic poem titled "The Female of the Species".

8. These famous words were written by which well-known poet? "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

Answer: Robert Frost

One of John F. Kennedy's favorite poems titled: "The Road Not Taken". Throughout his life Frost was showered with honors. One such honor was when John F. Kennedy invited him to read a poem at the presidential inauguration ceremony in 1961.

9. Which melancholy poet said: "...Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell"?

Answer: Emily Dickinson

Many of Dickinson's poems were just numbers, this one was called
1732.

10. Which American poet said?: "When I compare What I have lost with what I have gained..."

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Loss And Gain" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was one of the first poets of his time to write about Native American themes as in the poem "The Song of Hiawatha".

Source: Author shechamellion

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