Quiz  /  Poets and Poetry (Part One) Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which poem by John Gower runs to some 33,000 lines?

  • In Praise of Peace
  • Troilus and Criseyde
  • Speculum meditantis
  • Confessio amantis

  • 2. 
    Which heroic poem, named after a Scandinavian hero, is considered the earliest European vernacular epic?

  • Morkinskinna
  • Beowulf
  • Fagrskinna
  • Kalevala

  • 3. 
    What poets wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress (1951)?

  • Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso
  • W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman
  • Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood
  • Louis MacNeice and Cecil Day-Lewis

  • 4. 
    Who wrote Seven Types of Ambiguity, one of the most influential works about poetry during the first half of the 20th century?

  • W.H. Auden
  • William Empson
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Ezra Pound

  • 5. 
    What is the name of the Persian national epic poem, which was completed in 1010?

  • Masnavī-yi Maʿnavī
  • Būstān
  • The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
  • Shāh-nāmeh

  • 6. 
    Which poet introduced the ideas of Renaissance theorists to England in his treatise The Defence of Poesie?

  • Thomas More
  • John Donne
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • Sir Philip Sidney

  • 7. 
    Who wrote the poem “The Wild Swans at Coole”?

  • John Millington Synge
  • William Butler Yeats
  • John Keats
  • Ezra Pound

  • 8. 
    Which is the earliest known English play written in blank verse?

  • All for Love
  • Gorboduc
  • The Faerie Queene
  • Dr. Faustus

  • 9. 
    Whose book-length poem Omeros retells Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in a 20th-century Caribbean setting?

  • Derek Walcott’s
  • V.S. Naipaul’s
  • Toni Morrison’s
  • Paule Marshall’s
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