US Culture MCQs

American Poets MCQs with Answer

Who wrote the famous poem “The Road Not Taken”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Robert Frost
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: b

The author of “Leaves of Grass” is:
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: c

“I, Too, Sing America” is a poem by:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: b

The American poet known for his gothic and macabre tales is:
a) Walt Whitman
b) Robert Frost
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: c

Who wrote the poem “Because I could not stop for Death”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Maya Angelou
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: a

The author of “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is:
a) Walt Whitman
b) Langston Hughes
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: c

“A Dream Deferred” is a famous poem by:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Robert Frost
c) Maya Angelou
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: a

The American poet and civil rights activist known for her autobiographical works is:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: a

Who wrote the epic poem “The Raven”?
a) Robert Frost
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: d

The author of “The Bell Jar” and the poetry collection “Ariel” is:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Sylvia Plath
c) Langston Hughes
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b

“I hear America singing” is the opening line of a poem by:
a) Walt Whitman
b) Robert Frost
c) Langston Hughes
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: a

The American poet known for her reclusive lifestyle and innovative use of dashes is:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Maya Angelou
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a

The American poet and novelist known for works like “On the Road” is:
a) Walt Whitman
b) Jack Kerouac
c) Langston Hughes
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “The New Colossus,” which is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty?
a) Robert Frost
b) Langston Hughes
c) Maya Angelou
d) Emma Lazarus
Answer: d

The American poet known for his transcendentalist philosophy and essays like “Self-Reliance” is:
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Langston Hughes
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: a

Who wrote the poem “Harlem” with the famous lines “What happens to a dream deferred?”
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Maya Angelou
d) Robert Frost
Answer: b

The American poet and novelist known for his works “The Catcher in the Rye” and “Franny and Zooey” is:
a) T.S. Eliot
b) J.D. Salinger
c) Langston Hughes
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Robert Frost
Answer: b

The American poet and essayist known for her feminist writings and “The Awakening” is:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Kate Chopin
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: c

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself” is the opening line of a poem by:
a) Robert Frost
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: c

The American poet known for his “Four Quartets” and “The Hollow Men” is:
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Walt Whitman
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “Caged Bird,” addressing themes of freedom and oppression?
a) Maya Angelou
b) Langston Hughes
c) Sylvia Plath
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a

The American poet and critic known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance is:
a) T.S. Eliot
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Langston Hughes
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: c

The American poet known for his poems inspired by the experiences of African Americans is:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “The Raven”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: d

The American poet and essayist known for her works “The Death of the Hired Man” and “Because I could not stop for Death” is:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Sylvia Plath
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “A Dream Within a Dream”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: d

The American poet known for her innovative use of language and punctuation is:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Maya Angelou
d) Robert Frost
Answer: a

The American poet and novelist known for his works “Moby-Dick” and “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Herman Melville
c) Walt Whitman
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “The Negro Mother”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Maya Angelou
c) Robert Frost
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: a

The American poet known for his transcendentalist works “Nature” and “Self-Reliance” is:
a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
b) Langston Hughes
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a

Who wrote the poem “Still I Rise”?
a) Sylvia Plath
b) Maya Angelou
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b

The American poet and civil rights activist known for his “I Have a Dream” speech is:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Langston Hughes
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: c

Who wrote the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” often referred to as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”?
a) Robert Frost
b) Langston Hughes
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Clement Clarke Moore
Answer: d

The American poet and novelist known for his works “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” is:
a) Robert Frost
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Langston Hughes
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “The Hollow Men”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: b

The American poet and author known for his works “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “The Song of Hiawatha” is:
a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a

Who wrote the poem “Lady Lazarus”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Sylvia Plath
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Robert Frost
Answer: b

The American poet known for her innovative use of form and unconventional punctuation is:
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Maya Angelou
c) Langston Hughes
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: a

Who wrote the poem “Chicago”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Maya Angelou
d) Carl Sandburg
Answer: d

The American poet and novelist known for his works “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Harlem” is:
a) Langston Hughes
b) Lorraine Hansberry
c) Maya Angelou
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b

Who wrote the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”?
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Emily Dickinson
d) William Carlos Williams
Answer: d

The American poet known for his “Ariel” collection and her tragic life is:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Sylvia Plath
Answer: d

Who wrote the poem “Song of Myself”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Walt Whitman
d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: c

The American poet and novelist known for works like “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” is:
a) Langston Hughes
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Robert Frost
Answer: c

Who wrote the poem “Caged Bird”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Langston Hughes
c) Robert Frost
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: d

The American poet known for his collection “The Colossus and Other Poems” is:
a) Sylvia Plath
b) Langston Hughes
c) T.S. Eliot
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a

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