Poets and Their Verses

Literature · 10 questions

Famous poems, poets and the movements they inspired.

Answer each question first, then check with “Show the answer”. You can also play the same quiz in the Quizera app by searching for it in Explore, as a live game, a test or flashcards.

1. Who wrote 'The Raven'?

   1. Edgar Allan Poe
   2. Robert Frost
   3. Walt Whitman
   4. Emily Dickinson
   Show the answer

   A) Edgar Allan Poe

2. Which poet wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?

   1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
   2. Henry Longfellow
   3. Walt Whitman
   4. William Blake
   Show the answer

   C) Walt Whitman

3. Which Romantic poet wrote 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'?

   1. Lord Byron
   2. John Keats
   3. Percy Shelley
   4. William Wordsworth
   Show the answer

   D) William Wordsworth

4. Which Chilean poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971?

   1. Octavio Paz
   2. Pablo Neruda
   3. Gabriela Mistral
   4. Rubén Darío
   Show the answer

   B) Pablo Neruda

5. Which poet is known for 'The Road Not Taken'?

   1. Robert Frost
   2. Carl Sandburg
   3. Ezra Pound
   4. Wallace Stevens
   Show the answer

   A) Robert Frost

6. A poem of fourteen lines is called a…

   1. Ode
   2. Ballad
   3. Elegy
   4. Sonnet
   Show the answer

   D) Sonnet

7. Which Persian poet wrote the 'Masnavi' and inspired the whirling dervishes?

   1. Hafez
   2. Omar Khayyam
   3. Rumi
   4. Saadi
   Show the answer

   C) Rumi

8. Which epic poem by Homer tells of a long voyage home from Troy?

   1. The Iliad
   2. The Odyssey
   3. The Aeneid
   4. Beowulf
   Show the answer

   B) The Odyssey

9. A haiku traditionally has three lines.

   1. True
   2. False
   Show the answer

   A) True

10. Emily Dickinson published most of her poems during her lifetime.

    1. True
    2. False
    Show the answer

    B) False