Test Your Knowledge On Famous Poets!
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From Robert Frost to Maya Angelou to the legendary William Shakespare, history is filled with great, famous poets, along with their well-known poems. Are you a fan of poetry? Take this quiz to test your knowledge on famous poets!
- 1.
Who wrote the poem, "Phenomenal Woman"?- A.
Maya Angelou
- B.
Margaret Atwood
- C.
Sylvia Plath
- D.
Emily Dickinson
- 2.
Who wrote the poem, "The Road Not Taken"?
- A.
Walt Whitman
- B.
Robert Frost
- C.
Langston Hughes
- D.
Edgar Allan Poe
- 3.
Less than a dozen of Emily Dickinson's poems were published during her lifetime. After her death, however, nearly ____________ poems were discovered.
- A.
500
- B.
1,200
- C.
1,800
- D.
2,000
- 4.
Who wrote the poem, "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"?
- A.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- B.
William Wordsworth
- C.
E. E. Cummings
- D.
W. B. Yeats
- 5.
Which poem did William Shakespeare NOT write?
- A.
Seeker of Truth
- B.
The Phoenix and the Turtle
- C.
A Lover's Complaint
- D.
Sonnet 29
- 6.
Where does Oscar Wilde come from?
- A.
Ireland
- B.
Scotland
- C.
Germany
- D.
England
- 7.
William Blake's poetry has been characterized as part of the _____________ movement.
- A.
Impressionist
- B.
Futurist
- C.
Romantic
- D.
Classical Realist
- 8.
What is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most well known poems, published in 1845?
- A.
Annabel Lee
- B.
The Raven
- C.
The Bells
- D.
The City in the Sea
- 9.
How did Sylvia Plath die?
- A.
Murder
- B.
Scarlet fever
- C.
Ovarian cancer
- D.
Suicide
- 10.
Who wrote the poem, "Where the Sidewalk Ends"?
- A.
Robert Browning
- B.
Shel Silverstein
- C.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- D.
Pablo Neruda
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