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Great Lines from Great Poems Trivia Quiz

I provide the line from the poem - you identify the poet who wrote it.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
11,145

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
2506

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'I am the master of my fate' Hint

John Donne

Ernest Dowson

William Ernest Henley

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'Come Live With Me and Be my Love' Hint

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare

Ben Jonson

John Webster

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform" Hint

Matthew Arnold

William Blake

William Cowper

Thomas Gray

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream' Hint

John Dryden

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'A Man's reach should exceed his grasp' Hint

Alexander Pope

Robert Browning

Andrew Marvell

Walt Whitman

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Do Not Go Gentle into that good night' Hint

Dylan Thomas

John Greenleaf Whittier

Ezra Pound

Hart Crane

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'Tell me not in mournful numbers life is but an empty dream' Hint

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lord Byron

Alfred LordTennyson

William Butler Yeats

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'I must go down to the sea again' Hint

A.E. Housman

William Wordsworth

John Masefield

Percy Shelley

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'Water, water, everywhere Hint

e.e.Cummings

Robert Burns

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oscar Wilde

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'The woods are lovely, dark and deep' Hint

Carl Sandburg

Robert Frost

Thomas Hood

Vachel Lindsay

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'I am the master of my fate'

Answer: William Ernest Henley

'Invictus'

2. 'Come Live With Me and Be my Love'

Answer: Christopher Marlowe

'The Passionate Shepherd'

3. 'God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform"

Answer: William Cowper

'Light shining out of the darkness'

4. 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

'Dreamland'

5. 'A Man's reach should exceed his grasp'

Answer: Robert Browning

'Andrea Del Sarto'

6. 'Do Not Go Gentle into that good night'

Answer: Dylan Thomas

The quoted line is also the title

7. 'Tell me not in mournful numbers life is but an empty dream'

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'Psalm of Life'

8. 'I must go down to the sea again'

Answer: John Masefield

'Sea Fever'

9. 'Water, water, everywhere

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

10. 'The woods are lovely, dark and deep'

Answer: Robert Frost

'Stopping by woods ...'

Source: Author robert362

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