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    Which American poet wrote "The Raven"?

    • Edgar Allan Poe
    • Robert Frost
    • Mary Oliver
    • None of these
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How many poems have you read so far? Do you know enough about American poets to pass this American poets quiz that we have made here for you? America has produced some of the most memorable literary figures. There have been many great American poets, and their work is read and appreciated to date. If you think you know American poets and their poems so much, you can take this quiz and score high to prove this.

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  • 2. 

    Which of these is not a poem by Sylvia Plath?

    • Mirror

    • Tulips

    • The Lamb

    • Daddy

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  • 3. 

    In which year was Sylvia Plath's first poetry collection, The Colossus and Other Poems, published?

    • 1950

    • 1960

    • 1965

    • 1970

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  • 4. 

    Sylvia Plath committed suicide in which year?

    • 1960

    • 1961

    • 1962

    • 1963

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  • 5. 

    T. S. Eliot has written

    • The Waste Land

    • The Hollow Men

    • Portrait of a Lady

    • All of these

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  • 6. 

    T. S. Eliot was born in

    • 1885

    • 1888

    • 1890

    • 1899

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  • 7. 

    "I carry your heart with me" was written by

    • William Wordsworth

    • E. E. CUMMINGS

    • Emily Dickinson

    •  None of these

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  • 8. 

    "In a Station of the Metro" was written by

    • Ezra Pound

    • Walt Whitman

    • Sylvia Plath

    • Mark Twain

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  • 9. 

    In 1855, which of these Walt Whitman's poems was published?

    • Song of Myself

    • O Captain! My Captain!

    • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

    • None of these

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  • 10. 

    Ezra Pound's poem "The Cantos" was published in

    • 1919

    • 1923

    • 1925

    • 1931

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