1. Who was the greatest poet of Russia’s golden age?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Alexander Pushkin
C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D) Charles Baudelaire
2. Which of these poets is said to have died by leaping from a cliff into the sea?
A) Sappho
B) John Keats
C) Alfred Lord Tennyson
D) Sarojini Naidu
3. In what poem does a sailor suffer bad luck for killing an albatross?
A) Gunga Din
B) Hiawatha
C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
D) The Odyssey
4. Who wrote the long poem “The Waste Land”?
A) A.A. Milne
B) W.H. Auden
C) T.S. Eliot
D) C.S. Lewis
5. What is the most common meter in English poetry?
A) Iambic pentameter
B) Hemistich
C) Hexameter
D) Aeolian meter
6. Who is the national poet of Scotland?
A) Robert Louis Stevenson
B) Ossian
C) Robert Burns
D) Danny Boyle
7) Who wrote the poem “Jabberwocky”?
A) Robert Lowell
B) Lewis Carroll
C) Robert Burns
D) Charles Dickens
8, Which of these is not a poetic form?
A) Haiku
B) Sestina
C) Epic
D) Almanac
9) Which of these words relates to poetry?
A) Mater
B) Metre
C) Motor
D) Mitre
10) Which of these was a 19th-century American poet?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Helen Hayes
C) Madam Curie
D) Florence Nightingale