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NAQT Poetry

Quiz by Mike Eaton

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  • Q1
    Frost
    The line "and miles to go before I sleep" is repeated at the end of "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening," a poem by what author?
    30s
  • Q2
    Longfellow
    What "Fireside Poet" wrote the long work "The Song of Hiawatha," inspired by Native American mythology?
    30s
  • Q3
    Tenth Muse
    Colonial port Anne Bradstreet's major collection is titled for what figure "lately sprung up in America"?
    30s
  • Q4
    The Statue of Liberty
    On what large work of art is Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" inscribed?
    30s
  • Q5
    The Harlem Renaissance
    Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen were members of what largely African-American literary and cultural movement of the early 20th century?
    30s
  • Q6
    Howl
    What long poem, which begins "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," was written by Allen Ginsberg, a member of the "Beat Generation"?
    30s
  • Q7
    Plath
    What female poet wrote the collection "Ariel" and the poem "Daddy"?
    30s
  • Q8
    Sandburg
    What poet praised the "City of the Big Shoulders" in his poem "Chicago"?
    30s
  • Q9
    The Waste Land
    "April is the cruellest month" is the first line of what long poem by T.S. Eliot?
    30s
  • Q10
    Belle of Amherst
    Emily Dickinson was known as the "Belle" of what Massachusetts town, where she spent most of her adult life as a recluse in her family town?
    30s
  • Q11
    Whitman
    What poet described sounding his "barbaric yawp" in his poem "Song of Myself"?
    30s
  • Q12
    Bryant
    What 19th-century American poet wrote "Thanatopsis" and "To a Waterfowl"?
    30s
  • Q13
    Cummings
    What poet's unusual punctuation and capitalization are on display in "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
    30s
  • Q14
    Poe
    What man wrote of a creature that repeats the word "nevermore" in his poem "The Raven"?
    30s
  • Q15
    Pound
    The two-liner poem "In a Station of the Metro" was written by what Modernist and Imagist poet, who also wrote the Cantos?
    30s

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