Question

Prepare a questionery of literary quiz comprising of ten mcq's on either of two authors robert frost or Isaac asimov

Answer 1

Where did Frost spend most of his teenage years?

Boston, Massachusetts

San Francisco, California

Franconia, New Hampshire

Lawrence, Massachusetts

2What was the title of the first poem that Frost published professionally?

Two Roads Diverged in a Wood

Fire and Ice

My Butterfly: An Elegy

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

3In what year did Frost receive his undergraduate diploma from Dartmouth College?

1894

1892

He did not receive a diploma

1906

4Which of the following was NOT one of the jobs that Frost did to support his family?

Cobbling shoes

Teaching Italian

Delivering newspapers

Editing the Lawrence newspaper

5In what year did Frost sell his first professional poem to the New York Independent?

1901

1920

1892

1894

6What was the name of Frost's wife?

Isabelle Moodie

Irma Frost

Elinor White

Miriam White

7How did the Atlantic Monthly describe Frost's poetry in their rejection letters?

"repetitive rhyming"

"vigorous verse"

"pathetic poetry"

"precious prose"

8In what year did Frost and his family move to England?

1892

1912

1915

1910

9In "Mending Wall," what is there that does not love a wall?

Something

Nature

A neighbor

God

10What term does Frost use to personify the scythe in "Mowing"?

Singing

Whispering

Working

Standing

11Fill in the blanks: "It went many _____, but at last came a _____."

Hours; joy

Days; friend

Moments; leaf

Years; knock

12Which poets were particularly influential for Frost during his time in England?

Emily Dickinson, Robert Hayden, and Thomas Hardy

Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, and Rubert Brooke

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Amy Lowell, and E.E. Cummings

Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley

13Why did Frost come back to America in 1915?

The outbreak of World War II

The outbreak of World War I

He was tired of England

His wife died of smallpox

14What significant institution did Frost co-found in 1920?

University of Michigan School of Poetry

Princeton University

Bread Loaf School and Conference of English

Amherst College

15How many of Frost's children died before him?

Two

Six

Four

Three

16What personal tragedy for Frost occurred in 1938?

Frost's daughter died of heart failure

Frost's son died of heart failure

Frost died of heart failure

Frost's wife died of heart failure

17Who was the inspiration for "A Witness Tree"?

Elinor White

Kay Morrison

Ezra Pound

Isabelle Moodie

18Where did Frost teach English off-and-on for twenty-two years?

University of Michigan

Amherst College

Harvard University

Dartmouth College

19Which of the following awards did Frost NOT receive?

The Nobel Prize in Literature

The Congressional Gold Medal

The Lifetime Fellowship of the University of Michigan

The Edward MacDowell Medal

20How many of Frost's children suffered from mental breakdowns?

Four

Two

Six

Three