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Quiz about Great Lines From American Poems
Quiz about Great Lines From American Poems

Great Lines From American Poems Quiz


The 'Great Lines' in this quiz have been selected from famous and often anthologised American poems. In all those lines one or more items have been omitted. Up to you to reconstruct the original text.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
flem-ish
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
70,622
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
973
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Question 1 of 10
1. What is the missing girl's name in these lines: It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of _________
_________ ?

Answer: (Two {Words;} 7 letters + 3 letters)
Question 2 of 10
2. What is the missing name of the imaginary country in : ' Gaily bedight A gallant knight In sunshine and in shadow Had journeyed long Singing a song In search of __________ ?

Answer: (The Gold Land ! Eight letters.)
Question 3 of 10
3. Fill in the blank:' Love is not all; it is not ________ nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again'.? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What name did Carl Sandburg give to Chicago: 'Hog butcher for the world Tool-maker Stacker of Wheat Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freighthandler Stormy, husky brawling City of ____________ '? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What is the name of the R.C. priest whom Edgar Lee Masters immortalised in his Spoon River Anthology: ' You are over there, Father _______, Where holy ground is, and the cross marks every grave, Not here with us on the hill, Us of wavering faith, and clouded vision And drifting hope, and unforgiven sins.' ? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Fill in the blank: ' I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars , And the pismire is equally perfect , and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren And the tree-toad is a chef d'oeuvre for the highest And the running ___________ would adorn the parlors of heaven. ? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. 'I believe a leaf of grass is no less than.. And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue, And a _____ is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.' What word is missing? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What is the missing word in these 'post-war' lines: 'There died a myriad And of the best among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilisation, For two gross of broken _____, For a few thousand battered books.? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. A slightly feminist response to a hubby frowning upon his wife's 'borrowing' the book he was reading: 'You will not catch me reading any more. I shall be called a wife to pattern by; And some day when you knock and push the door, Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy, I shall be gone , and you may _________ for me.' Missing word ? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness - 't Is the Majority In this, as All, prevail. Assent - and you are sane; Demur - you are straightway dangerous, And ____________________________________ Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What is the missing girl's name in these lines: It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of _________ _________ ?

Answer: Annabel Lee

One of Edgar Allan Poe's most popular poems. Sounds as if there is some special magic in names on -ee: Simon Legree, General Lee, Captain O'Shea.
2. What is the missing name of the imaginary country in : ' Gaily bedight A gallant knight In sunshine and in shadow Had journeyed long Singing a song In search of __________ ?

Answer: Eldorado

Poe lived from 1809 till 1849.Born in Boston , as the son of actor parents of small means.Was admitted to Westpoint but arranged his own dismissal.Embarked on a literary career from 1830 on.
3. Fill in the blank:' Love is not {all;} it is not ________ nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again'.?

Answer: meat

Sonnet XXX by Edna St. Vincent Millay.Born 1892 in Maine. Died in 1950.
4. What name did Carl Sandburg give to Chicago: 'Hog butcher for the world Tool-maker Stacker of Wheat Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freighthandler Stormy, husky brawling City of ____________ '?

Answer: the Big Shoulders

Sandburg( 1878- 1967) was born at Galesburg Illinois, son of a Swedish immigrant.
5. What is the name of the R.C. priest whom Edgar Lee Masters immortalised in his Spoon River Anthology: ' You are over there, Father _______, Where holy ground is, and the cross marks every grave, Not here with us on the hill, Us of wavering faith, and clouded vision And drifting hope, and unforgiven sins.' ?

Answer: Malloy

Born in 1869 in Garnett, Kansas of Puritan and pioneer stock, moved to Illinois where he studied law.Died in 1950 .Spoon River Anthology is a collection of some 200 'imaginary' epitaphs: the dead of a Middle western town tell the truth about themselves.A landmark in American poetry.
6. Fill in the blank: ' I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars , And the pismire is equally perfect , and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren And the tree-toad is a chef d'oeuvre for the highest And the running ___________ would adorn the parlors of heaven. ?

Answer: blackberry

Whitman may be considered to have been the inventor of modern free verse. He was born in Long Island. Lived most of the time in the country , but learned to love cities as well. Various {occupations:office-boy;schoolteacher;editor;lecturer;} {carpenter;stage-driver;copyist;nurse.Attack} of paralysis in 1873.
7. 'I believe a leaf of grass is no less than.. And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue, And a _____ is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.' What word is missing?

Answer: mouse

Whitman lived from 1819 till 1892.'Leaves of Grass' was published in 1855.
8. What is the missing word in these 'post-war' lines: 'There died a myriad And of the best among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilisation, For two gross of broken _____, For a few thousand battered books.?

Answer: statues

Pound( 1885-1972) was born in Idaho.Entered University of Pennsylvania at 15.Travelled in Europe and lived in London, Paris, Rapollo on the Italian Riviera.Befriended T.S. ELiot, appreciated James Joyce before Joyce had become famous, invented the term 'Imagism'.His open association with Italian Fascism caused him trouble. Just as Eliot's Wasteland his Cantos juxtapose the Homeric, the medieval and the modern world.
9. A slightly feminist response to a hubby frowning upon his wife's 'borrowing' the book he was reading: 'You will not catch me reading any more. I shall be called a wife to pattern {by;} And some day when you knock and push the door, Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy, I shall be gone , and you may _________ for me.' Missing word ?

Answer: whistle

Edna St. Vincent Millay was not just a feminist {;} her sexual horizon included both women and men.
10. Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness - 't Is the Majority In this, as All, prevail. Assent - and you are {sane;} Demur - you are straightway dangerous, And ____________________________________

Answer: handled with a Chain

The Recluse of Amherst lived from 1830 till 1886.
Source: Author flem-ish

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