Quiz  /  Poets of America Quiz

  • 1. 
    What 19th-century poet wrote The Song of Hiawatha?

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Walt Whitman
  • James Fenimore Cooper

  • 2. 
    What American poet wrote the novel The Bell Jar?

  • Anne Sexton
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Denise Levertov
  • Sylvia Plath

  • 3. 
    Which American poet admonished that poets should present imaginary gardens with real toads in them?

  • Adrienne Rich
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Denise Levertov
  • Marianne Moore

  • 4. 
    Which of the following American poets is known for his complex autobiographical poetry?

  • Robert Lowell, Jr.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Robert Frost
  • Philip Freneau

  • 5. 
    In which of Allen Ginsberg’s poems does he lament his mother’s insanity?

  • Reality Sandwiches
  • The Fall of America
  • Kaddish
  • Howl

  • 6. 
    What American poet displaced Ezra Pound as leader of the Imagists?

  • Hilda Doolittle
  • Bryher
  • Amy Lowell
  • Elizabeth Bishop

  • 7. 
    Which of the works of T.S. Eliot deals with the legend of the search for the Grail?

  • “Ash Wednesday”
  • The Sacred Wood
  • Four Quartets
  • The Waste Land

  • 8. 
    Which American lyric poet wrote “I’m Nobody! Who are you? / Are you—Nobody—too?”?

  • Robert Frost
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Walt Whitman
  • Wallace Stevens

  • 9. 
    Who founded and edited Poetry magazine?

  • Margaret Anderson
  • Sylvia Beach
  • Harriet Monroe
  • Adrienne Monnier
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