Quiz  /  Famous Poets and Poetic Form Quiz

  • 1. 
    The greatest poet of Russia’s golden age was:

  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Leo Tolstoy

  • 2. 
    Which of these poets is said to have died by leaping from a cliff into the sea?

  • Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • John Keats
  • Sappho
  • Sarojini Naidu

  • 3. 
    In what poem does a sailor suffer bad luck for killing an albatross?

  • Gunga Din
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • Hiawatha
  • The Odyssey

  • 4. 
    Who wrote the long poem The Waste Land?

  • A.A. Milne
  • T.S. Eliot
  • C.S. Lewis
  • W.H. Auden

  • 5. 
    What is the most common meter in English poetry?

  • hexameter
  • Aeolian meter
  • hemistich
  • iambic pentameter

  • 6. 
    Who is the national poet of Scotland?

  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Danny Boyle
  • Robert Burns
  • Ossian

  • 7. 
    Who wrote the poem "Jabberwocky"?

  • Robert Lowell
  • Charles Dickens
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Robert Burns

  • 8. 
    Which of these is not a poetic form?

  • haiku
  • epic
  • sestina
  • almanac

  • 9. 
    Which of these words relates to poetry?

  • motor
  • meter
  • mater
  • mitre

  • 10. 
    Which of these was a 19th-century American poet?

  • Florence Nightingale
  • Madam Curie
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Helen Hayes
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