Quiz  /  Poets and Poetry (Part Two) Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which poet is known for his classic formulation of the children’s tale “The Three Bears”?

  • Robert Browning
  • Robert Southey
  • Robert Frost
  • Hans Christian Andersen

  • 2. 
    Who wrote the poem Metamorphoses?

  • Virgil
  • Catullus
  • Ovid
  • Horace

  • 3. 
    Which of these contains the largest collection of Old English poetry?

  • The Book of the Dun Cow
  • Exeter Book
  • Lindisfarne Gospels
  • Book of Kells

  • 4. 
    Who was Beowulf?

  • a king of the Scots
  • a lord of the Danes
  • a prince of the Geats
  • a queen of England

  • 5. 
    Which man addressed his poetry to an idealized beloved named Laura?

  • Dante
  • Lorenzo de’ Medici
  • Petrarch
  • Giovanni Boccaccio

  • 6. 
    Which poet of the Romantic era argued that poets are “the unacknowledged legislators of the world”?

  • John Keats
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • William Shakespeare
  • Dorothy Wordsworth

  • 7. 
    What does Richard Tottel’s Miscellany consist of?

  • limericks about ducks
  • plays
  • religious tracts
  • lyric poetry

  • 8. 
    Which of these books of poetry did T.S. Eliot write?

  • Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
  • Ariel
  • Leaves of Grass
  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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