Who wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken”?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: c) Robert Frost
I celebrate myself, and sing myself” are the opening lines of which famous American poem?
a) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
b) “Song of Myself”
c) “The Raven”
d) “Leaves of Grass”
Answer: b) “Song of Myself”
Who wrote the poem “The Waste Land”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Emily Dickinson
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Robert Frost
Answer: c) T.S. Eliot
“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me” are lines from which poem?
a) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
b) “The Waste Land”
c) “Because I could not stop for Death”
d) “The Raven”
Answer: c) “Because I could not stop for Death”
Langston Hughes is associated with which literary movement?
a) Transcendentalism
b) Harlem Renaissance
c) Beat Generation
d) Romanticism
Answer: b) Harlem Renaissance
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” is the opening line of which poem?
a) “The Road Not Taken”
b) “I Hear America Singing”
c) “The Raven”
d) “Daffodils”
Answer: d) “Daffodils”
Who wrote the poem “The Raven”?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: c) Edgar Allan Poe
Which American poet is known for his collection “Leaves of Grass?
a) Robert Frost
b) Walt Whitman
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b) Walt Whitman
Howl” is a famous poem by which American poet?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Allen Ginsberg
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: b) Allen Ginsberg
Who wrote the poem “I Hear America Singing”?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: a) Walt Whitman
The poem “The Waste Land” is primarily written in which form?
a) Sonnet
b) Haiku
c) Free verse
d) Epic
Answer: c) Free verse
Which American poet is famous for his work in the Beat Generation movement?
a) Robert Frost
b) Allen Ginsberg
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b) Allen Ginsberg
“I, too, sing America” are the opening lines of a poem by which poet?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Langston Hughes
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: c) Langston Hughes
Who wrote the famous poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
a) T.S. Eliot
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Robert Frost
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a) T.S. Eliot
“I taste a liquor never brewed” is a poem written by:
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson
The poem “The Road Not Taken” is about:
a) A traveler choosing a path in the woods
b) A love story between two people
c) The challenges of city life
d) An epic journey across the ocean
Answer: a) A traveler choosing a path in the woods
“Hope is the thing with feathers” is the opening line of a poem by:
a) Robert Frost
b) Emily Dickinson
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b) Emily Dickinson
Which American poet is associated with the phrase “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: c) Walt Whitman
“The Red Wheelbarrow” is a famous poem written by:
a) Robert Frost
b) Emily Dickinson
c) T.S. Eliot
d) William Carlos Williams
Answer: d) William Carlos Williams
Which American poet wrote the poem “Annabel Lee”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: b) Edgar Allan Poe
“Do I dare disturb the universe?” is a line from which American poem?
a) “The Waste Land”
b) “The Raven”
c) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
d) “I Hear America Singing”
Answer: c) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
The poem “The Raven” is known for its theme of:
a) Nature’s beauty
b) Undying love
c) Grief and loss
d) Political revolution
Answer: c) Grief and loss
Who wrote the poem “If We Must Die”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Claude McKay
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: c) Claude McKay
“Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me” are lines from a poem by:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Walt Whitman
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: b) Emily Dickinson
Which American poet is associated with the phrase “I sing the body electric”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Walt Whitman
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b) Walt Whitman
“A noiseless patient spider” is the opening line of a poem written by:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Walt Whitman
d) Robert Frost
Answer: c) Walt Whitman
Who wrote the poem “Harlem (Dream Deferred)”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: b) Langston Hughes
“I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” is a poem by:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Walt Whitman
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: b) Emily Dickinson
The literary movement known for its focus on intuition, nature, and individualism is:
a) Transcendentalism
b) Beat Generation
c) Harlem Renaissance
d) Romanticism
Answer: a) Transcendentalism
“I, too, am America” is a line from a poem by:
a) Robert Frost
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b) Langston Hughes
Who wrote the poem “The New Colossus,” which is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emma Lazarus
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: c) Emma Lazarus
The poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is written by:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Robert Frost
c) Walt Whitman
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: b) Robert Frost
“I, too, sing America” is a poem that addresses issues of:
a) Civil rights and equality
b) Nature and beauty
c) Love and loss
d) Existentialism
Answer: a) Civil rights and equality
Who is known for her reclusive lifestyle and unconventional use of punctuation and capitalization in her poems?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson
The poem “O Captain! My Captain!” was written as a tribute to whom?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Walt Whitman
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Abraham Lincoln
Answer: d) Abraham Lincoln
Which American poet is known for his extensive use of symbolism in his works?
a) Robert Frost
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot
“I dwell in Possibility” is a poem by:
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson
The poem “I, Too” is an assertion of:
a) National pride
b) Personal isolation
c) Racial equality
d) Political revolution
Answer: c) Racial equality
Who wrote the poem “Song of Myself”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Walt Whitman
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: b) Walt Whitman
“A Route of Evanescence” is a poem written by:
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) Emily Bronte
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson
The poem “Chicago” is a celebration of:
a) Rural life and nature
b) The beauty of a city
c) The resilience of the human spirit
d) The power of love and relationships
Answer: c) The resilience of the human spirit
Who wrote the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Walt Whitman
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: a) Langston Hughes
“I taste a liquor never brewed” is a poem that celebrates:
a) The joys of drinking
b) The beauty of nature
c) The power of imagination
d) The pain of lost love
Answer: c) The power of imagination
The literary technique of repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines is known as:
a) Alliteration
b) Metaphor
c) Repetition
d) Assonance
Answer: a) Alliteration
Who is considered the “Poet Laureate of Harlem” and is known for his jazz-influenced poetry?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Walt Whitman
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a) Langston Hughes
The poem “The Waste Land” is often seen as a reflection of the disillusionment and despair following:
a) World War I
b) The American Civil War
c) The Great Depression
d) The Vietnam War
Answer: a) World War I
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself” are lines from a poem that emphasize the importance of:
a) Individualism and self-expression
b) Community and collaboration
c) Political activism
d) Spiritual enlightenment
Answer: a) Individualism and self-expression
Which American poet is known for his unique use of vernacular language and dialects in his poems?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: b) Langston Hughes
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul” are lines from which American poem?
a) “If We Must Die”
b) “The Road Not Taken”
c) “Invictus”
d) “The Raven”
Answer: c) “Invictus”
Who wrote the poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b) Walt Whitman
