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Poems of Tribute Trivia Quiz

These are some poems of tribute to some famous people.(If not actually "tribute", the poems at least include some reference to these people.)

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
172,627

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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387

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Question 1 of 10

1. Walt Whitman wrote "O Captain! My Captain" as a tribute to what individual? Hint

Abraham Lincoln

Dante

William Shakespeare

Robert E. Lee

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Question 2 of 10

2. "I weep for Adonais. He is dead." These lines were written about the death of what poet? Hint

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

William Wordsworth

John Keats

Lord Byron

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Question 3 of 10

3. What poet was described in a poem (by James Lowell) as being "three fifths pure genius and two fifths pure fudge"? Hint

Edgar Allan Poe

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Oscar Wilde

William Butler Yeats

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who wrote a poem about the painter, Andrea Del Sarto? Hint

Alexander Pope

Robert Browning

John Donne

Edmund Spenser

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Question 5 of 10

5. What author wrote a poem entitled "Buffalo Bill"? Hint

e. e. cummings

W.H. Auden

Robert Frost

Carl Sandburg

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Question 6 of 10

6. A poem by which author contains the line: "Mistah Kurtz. He dead."? Hint

Dylan Thomas

Robert Burns

T.S. Eliot

Charles Baudelaire

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Question 7 of 10

7. What poet wrote "I have detested you long enough, Walt Whitman"? Hint

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hart Crane

Ezra Pound

Emily Dickinson

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which poet makes a passing reference to Sophocles in a well-known poem? Hint

Richard Lovelace

Thomas Gray

Matthew Arnold

A.E. Housman

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who is the author of the poem "You, Andrew Marvell"? Hint

Maarianne Moore

Sylvia Plath

Archibald Macleish

Ted Hughes

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which of these individuals was NOT written about by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? Hint

Evangeline

Hiawatha

Francis Drake

Paul Revere

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Walt Whitman wrote "O Captain! My Captain" as a tribute to what individual?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Whitman was a contemporary of Lincoln's. The poem was written after Lincoln's assassination.

2. "I weep for Adonais. He is dead." These lines were written about the death of what poet?

Answer: John Keats

The poem which contains these lines was written by fellow romantic poet, Percy Shelley.

3. What poet was described in a poem (by James Lowell) as being "three fifths pure genius and two fifths pure fudge"?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

"There's Poe with his raven like Barnaby Rudge". The poem ends with the observation that "the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind". (Poe was not pleased.)

4. Who wrote a poem about the painter, Andrea Del Sarto?

Answer: Robert Browning

Browning wrote about the man who was called the "faultless" painter.

5. What author wrote a poem entitled "Buffalo Bill"?

Answer: e. e. cummings

This is one of the better known poems by cummings. ("How do you like your blue-eyed boy now ... ?")

6. A poem by which author contains the line: "Mistah Kurtz. He dead."?

Answer: T.S. Eliot

"The Hollow Men" opens with this observation about the character from Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".

7. What poet wrote "I have detested you long enough, Walt Whitman"?

Answer: Ezra Pound

Pound wrote the poem which ends with the line "let there be commerce between us".

8. Which poet makes a passing reference to Sophocles in a well-known poem?

Answer: Matthew Arnold

"Sophocles long ago heard it on the Aegean ..." comes from Arnold's famous poem, "Dover Beach".

9. Who is the author of the poem "You, Andrew Marvell"?

Answer: Archibald Macleish

Macleish is the author. (Of all people to whom to pay tribute ...)

10. Which of these individuals was NOT written about by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

Answer: Francis Drake

"Paul Revere's Ride" describes an actual person and an actual event. "Evangeline and the Acadians" describes a fictional person and an actual event: a historic migration. "Hiawatha" is said to describe an actual person who gave birth to a legend.

Source: Author robert362

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