US Famous MCQs

American Famous Poets MCQs with Answer

Who wrote “The Raven” and is known for his macabre and Gothic style?
a) Robert Frost
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: d) Edgar Allan Poe

Which poet wrote “Leaves of Grass” and is often considered the “Bard of Democracy?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Maya Angelou
c) Langston Hughes
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Walt Whitman

Who is known for her reclusive lifestyle and wrote many poems exploring themes of death and immortality?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Robert Frost
c) Langston Hughes
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson

Which poet is associated with the Harlem Renaissance and wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Walt Whitman
c) Maya Angelou
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: a) Langston Hughes

Who wrote “The Road Not Taken” and is known for his contemplative and introspective poems?
a) Robert Frost
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: a) Robert Frost

Which poet is known for her autobiographical works, including “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?
a) Maya Angelou
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a) Maya Angelou

Who is known for his socially engaged poetry and wrote “Let America Be America Again”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Walt Whitman
c) Maya Angelou
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Langston Hughes

Which poet is known for his satirical and humorous poems, including “A Visit from St. Nicholas”?
a) Robert Frost
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Clement Clarke Moore
Answer: d) Clement Clarke Moore

Who wrote “The Waste Land” and is considered one of the most influential poets of the 20th century?
a) Robert Frost
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Langston Hughes
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot

Which poet is known for her innovative and experimental poetry, including “The Bell Jar”?
a) Sylvia Plath
b) Maya Angelou
c) Langston Hughes
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) Sylvia Plath

Who wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and was a leading figure of modernist poetry?
a) Robert Frost
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Langston Hughes
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot

Which poet is known for his epic poem “The Divine Comedy” and is considered a major figure in Italian literature?
a) Dante Alighieri
b) Robert Frost
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a) Dante Alighieri

Who wrote “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and is one of the most famous English poets of the Romantic movement?
a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Which poet is known for his transcendentalist philosophy and wrote “Self-Reliance” and “Nature”?
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart” and is known for his contributions to both poetry and short stories?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) Edgar Allan Poe

Which poet is known for his complex and metaphysical poems, including “Death Be Not Proud”?
a) John Milton
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) John Milton

Who wrote “Because I could not stop for Death” and is known for her unique use of punctuation and syntax?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson

Which poet is known for his vivid and imagistic poetry, including “The Red Wheelbarrow”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Robert Frost
d) William Carlos Williams
Answer: d) William Carlos Williams

Who wrote “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” and was a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Maya Angelou
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) Langston Hughes

Which poet is known for his “Songs of Innocence and Experience” and is associated with the Romantic movement?
a) William Blake
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) William Blake

Who wrote “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” and is known for his wit and satirical poetry?
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Robert Frost
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) Oscar Wilde

Which poet is known for his poems about nature and transcendentalist philosophy, including “Concord Hymn”?
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who wrote “The Waste Land” and is known for his fragmented and modernist style?
a) T.S. Eliot
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) T.S. Eliot

Which poet is known for her confessional poetry and wrote “Lady Lazarus” and “Ariel”?
a) Sylvia Plath
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Sylvia Plath

Who wrote “The Negro Mother” and was a prominent African-American poet and civil rights activist?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Maya Angelou
c) Gwendolyn Brooks
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: c) Gwendolyn Brooks

Which poet is known for his metaphysical and religious poetry, including “Divine Meditation 14”?
a) John Donne
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) John Donne

Who wrote “The Song of Hiawatha” and is associated with the Fireside Poets?
a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Which poet is known for her vivid and sensual poems, including “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Maya Angelou
d) Edna St. Vincent Millay
Answer: d) Edna St. Vincent Millay

Who wrote “The Snow Man” and is associated with modernist and imagist poetry?
a) Wallace Stevens
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Wallace Stevens

Which poet is known for his humorous and satirical poetry, including “The Courtship of Miles Standish”?
a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Who wrote “The Raven” and is known for his macabre and Gothic style?
a) Robert Frost
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: d) Edgar Allan Poe

Which poet wrote “Leaves of Grass” and is often considered the “Bard of Democracy”?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Maya Angelou
c) Langston Hughes
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Walt Whitman

Who is known for her reclusive lifestyle and wrote many poems exploring themes of death and immortality?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Robert Frost
c) Langston Hughes
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson

Which poet is associated with the Harlem Renaissance and wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Walt Whitman
c) Maya Angelou
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: a) Langston Hughes

Who wrote “The Road Not Taken” and is known for his contemplative and introspective poems?
a) Robert Frost
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: a) Robert Frost

Which poet is known for her autobiographical works, including “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?
a) Maya Angelou
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a) Maya Angelou

Who is known for his socially engaged poetry and wrote “Let America Be America Again”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Walt Whitman
c) Maya Angelou
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Langston Hughes

Which poet is known for his satirical and humorous poems, including “A Visit from St. Nicholas”?
a) Robert Frost
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Clement Clarke Moore
Answer: d) Clement Clarke Moore

Who wrote “The Waste Land” and is considered one of the most influential poets of the 20th century?
a) Robert Frost
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Langston Hughes
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot

Which poet is known for her innovative and experimental poetry, including “The Bell Jar”?
a) Sylvia Plath
b) Maya Angelou
c) Langston Hughes
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) Sylvia Plath

Who wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and was a leading figure of modernist poetry?
a) Robert Frost
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Langston Hughes
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot

Which poet is known for his epic poem “The Divine Comedy” and is considered a major figure in Italian literature?
a) Dante Alighieri
b) Robert Frost
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a) Dante Alighieri

Who wrote “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and is one of the most famous English poets of the Romantic movement?
a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Which poet is known for his transcendentalist philosophy and wrote “Self-Reliance” and “Nature”?
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart” and is known for his contributions to both poetry and short stories?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) Edgar Allan Poe

Which poet is known for his metaphysical and religious poetry, including “Death Be Not Proud”?
a) John Milton
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) John Milton

Who wrote “The Negro Mother” and was a prominent African-American poet and civil rights activist?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Maya Angelou
c) Gwendolyn Brooks
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: c) Gwendolyn Brooks

Which poet is known for his complex and metaphysical poems, including “Divine Meditation 14”?
a) John Donne
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) John Donne

Who wrote “The Snow Man” and is associated with modernist and imagist poetry?
a) Wallace Stevens
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Wallace Stevens

Who is known for his humorous and satirical poetry, including “The Courtship of Miles Standish”?
a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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