Ezra Pound: Poems Quizzes

Ezra Pound: Poems Quiz 1

By Kathryn Gundersen · Edited by Ami Boghani · Last reviewed February 24, 2014

1 What year was Ezra Pound born?

1912

1885

1972

1870
2 In which state was Ezra Pound born?

Idaho

Nebraska

New York

Iowa
3 Which state did Pound's family move to when he was 18 months old?

New Jersey

Minnesota

New York

Pennsylvania
4 What was the form of Pound's first published poem?

sonnet

free verse

limerick

haiku
5 Which university did Ezra Pound attend (first)?

Columbia University

Harvard University

University of Pennsylvania

Hamilton College
6 Which university did Pound transfer to in order to complete his undergraduate degree?

Hamilton College

Oxford University

University College London

University of Pennsylvania
7 At which college did Pound teach for two years?

Amherst College

Carleton College

Wabash College

Hamilton College
8 In which European city did Pound first make his home?

Madrid

Venice

Paris

London
9 What was the first name of Pound's wife?

Dorothy

Hilda

Dora

Olivia
10 Which city did Pound settle in after leaving London?

Prague

Paris

Barcelona

London
11 What was the first name of the woman with whom Pound started a love affair in Paris?

Hilda

Olga

Dorothy

Olivia
12 After leaving Paris, which European country did Pound settle in?

Germany

Greece

Italy

Spain
13 Why was Ezra Pound arrested?

He refused a draft.

He plagiarized the work of another writer.

He was broadcasting antisemitic and fascist propaganda.

He was accused of murdering a fellow poet.
14 Which mental hospital was Pound sentenced to in Washington, D.C.?

St. Katherine's

St. Elizabeth's

St. Joseph's

St. Francis's
15 Where did Pound settle after his release from the mental hospital, where he eventually died?

Paris

New York

Venice

London
16 What was the name of the movement that Pound pioneered?

Imaginism

Impressionism

Imagism

Complexism
17 What were some defining characteristics of Imagism?

Economy of language and a more concise, non-abstract poetic style.

Poems written from the perspective of fictional characters.

Flowery language and extended metaphor.

Poems about nature.
18 One of Pound's major influences for his work in Imagism was...

Irish limerick.

Shakespearean sonnets.

Chinese and Japanese traditional poetry.

Walt Whitman's poetry.
19 Pound pioneered Imagism along with which two other people?

Benito Mussolini, John Adams

W.B. Yeats, E. E. Cummings

Richard Aldington, Hilda Doolittle

Dorothy Shakespear, Olivia Shakespear
20 What Pound's first book of poetry called?

I, Ezra Pound

A Lume Spento

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

The Cantos
21 In "Portrait d'une Femme," which sea does Pound compare the woman to?

Sargasso Sea

Dead Sea

Mediterranean Sea

Black Sea
22 Where does "Portrait d'une Femme" take place?

New York

Paris

London

The Caribbean
23 What do the "great minds" give the woman in "Portrait d'une Femme"?

jokes, riddles, puzzles

rubies, emeralds, pearls

spices, meats, vegetables

ideas, knowledge, gossip
24 What does the woman give the "great minds" in return in "Portrait d'une Femme"?

Hand-woven clothes

Her hand in marriage

Handwritten letters declaring her love

Useless facts, stories, and tales
25 In "Portrait d'une Femme," despite all the abstract things the woman is giving and receiving...

The woman has decided to leave London.

The woman still hates the people who come to her.

The woman is still dying of a terrible disease.

The woman still has nothing to truly call her own.

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