Quiz

1. An American haiku, “Fog” by Carl Sandburg invites readers to relate their personal experiences with fog and

   1. cats

   2. difficult math problems

   3. moonlight

2. Anne Sexton had personal experience as all of the following, except

   1. college dropout

   2. fashion model

   3. jazz singer

   4. religious leader

3. As a poet, Richard Wilbur stands out among his contemporaries because of what characteristic?

   1. His cheerful mood

   2. His habit of repeating specific verses within a work

   3. His use of foreign words

   4. The harsh, satiric tone he took in his poetry

4. At age 21 (in 1920), Hart Crane made his first cash sale with

   1. “Immortal Outcasts”

   2. “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”

   3. “October-November”

   4. “White Buildings”

5. Ezra Pound’s “A Virginal” is named after

   1. a book by Ernest Hemingway

   2. a ceremony in which maidens meet the men their parents have arranged as marital partners

   3. a small Renaissance keyboard instrument

   4. an ornate vessel used in religious ceremony

6. Gwendolyn Brooks sets the tone in “We Real Cool” with what now-popular musical form?

   1. Country

   2. Jazz

   3. Rap

   4. Rock

7. How many Pulitzer Prizes for poetry did Robert Frost win in his lifetime?

   1. 1

   2. 2

   3. 3

   4. 4

8. In addition to his considerable contributions to literature, William Carlos Williams managed a 41-year career as a(n)

   1. actor and theater production publicist

   2. banker

   3. minister

   4. physician

9. In “Here Lies a Lady,” the poet speaks through the mask of

   1. a courtly gentleman

   2. a crazed lover

   3. a genderless observer

   4. an emotional mourner

10. In “Picture Bride,” Cathy Song draws inspiration from which modern painter?

    1. Andrew Wyeth

    2. Georgia O’Keeffe

    3. Henri Matisse

    4. Pablo Picasso

11. Robert Lowell’s “Memories of West Street and Lepke” shares a first-person account of

    1. a harpist’s performance

    2. Lowell’s incarceration

    3. the family business in which Lowell worked as a teenager

    4. the poet’s childhood

12. The full name of the poet who preferred the pen name of H. D. is

    1. Harley Davidson

    2. Heather Drake

    3. Henry Drago

    4. Hilda Doolittle

13. The memorable line, “O world, I cannot hold thee close enough” comes from an inventive, self-revelation written by

    1. Denise Levertov

    2. Edna St. Vincent Millay

    3. H. D.

    4. Maya Angelou

14. The prissy protagonist who’s named in T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of . . .” is

    1. Eben Flood

    2. Huffy Henry

    3. J. Alfred Prufrock

    4. Langston Hughes

15. Wendy Rose sometimes wrote under the pseudonym of

    1. Anne Sexton

    2. Bronwen Elizabeth Edwards

    3. Chiron Khanshendel

    4. Zelda E.

Answers

1. a

2. d

3. a

4. b

5. c

6. c

7. d

8. d

9. a

10. b

11. b

12. d

13. b

14. c

15. c