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Poets And Their Works Trivia Quiz

How much do you know about poets and their works. I'll give the poet and you name the work or vice versa. Have fun!

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

Author
JCSon

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
7,731

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
1765

Last 3 plays: duchess1861 (6/10), jonnowales (5/10), Guest 206 (3/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'? Hint

Walt Whitman

John Keats

William Butler Yeats

William Wordsworth

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Question 2 of 10

2. Robert Frost authored which of the following works? Hint

'Ariel'

'Overtures to Death'

'In the Clearing'

'A Few Figs From Thistles'

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who is the author of the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'? Hint

John Donne

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

George Gordon Byron

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which of the following is not a work by William Blake? Hint

'Sonnets and Verse'

'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'

'Milton'

'Songs of Innocence and Experience'

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Question 5 of 10

5. Did George Herbert write 'The Temple'?

Answer: (Yes or No)

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who wrote 'Enough Rope', 'Sunset Gun', and 'Death and Taxes'? Hint

Ezra Pound

Dorothy Parker

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which of the following works is not attributed to Alfred, Lord Tennyson? Hint

'Piers Plowman'

'Maud'

'Idylls of the King'

'The Princess'

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who is the author of 'The Eye of the Hurricane' and 'The Incident Book'? Hint

Fleur Adcock

Edmund Blunden

Matthew Arnold

Sylvia Plath

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who is the author of 'Prometheus Unbound'? Hint

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Henry Longfellow

William Butler Yeats

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who wrote 'Paradise Lost'?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?

Answer: Walt Whitman

2. Robert Frost authored which of the following works?

Answer: 'In the Clearing'

3. Who is the author of the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'?

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4. Which of the following is not a work by William Blake?

Answer: 'Sonnets and Verse'

5. Did George Herbert write 'The Temple'?

Answer: Yes

6. Who wrote 'Enough Rope', 'Sunset Gun', and 'Death and Taxes'?

Answer: Dorothy Parker

7. Which of the following works is not attributed to Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

Answer: 'Piers Plowman'

8. Who is the author of 'The Eye of the Hurricane' and 'The Incident Book'?

Answer: Fleur Adcock

9. Who is the author of 'Prometheus Unbound'?

Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley

10. Who wrote 'Paradise Lost'?

Answer: John Milton

Source: Author JCSon

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