Robert Frost: Poems Quizzes

Robert Frost: Poems Quiz 1

By Caitlin Vincent · Edited by Jordan Reid Berkow · Last reviewed May 12, 2009

1 Where did Frost spend most of his teenage years?

Boston, Massachusetts

Franconia, New Hampshire

Lawrence, Massachusetts

San Francisco, California
2 What was the title of the first poem that Frost published professionally?

My Butterfly: An Elegy

Two Roads Diverged in a Wood

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

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

He did not receive a diploma

1892

1906

1894
4 Which of the following was NOT one of the jobs that Frost did to support his family?

Editing the Lawrence newspaper

Delivering newspapers

Teaching Italian

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

1892

1901

1894

1920
6 What was the name of Frost's wife?

Elinor White

Miriam White

Isabelle Moodie

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

"precious prose"

"pathetic poetry"

"vigorous verse"

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

1915

1892

1910

1912
9 In "Mending Wall," what is there that does not love a wall?

Nature

God

A neighbor

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

Whispering

Working

Singing

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

Years; knock

Days; friend

Hours; joy

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

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

Emily Dickinson, Robert Hayden, and Thomas Hardy

Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley

Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, and Rubert Brooke
13 Why did Frost come back to America in 1915?

The outbreak of World War II

He was tired of England

The outbreak of World War I

His wife died of smallpox
14 What significant institution did Frost co-found in 1920?

University of Michigan School of Poetry

Bread Loaf School and Conference of English

Princeton University

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

Six

Two

Three

Four
16 What personal tragedy for Frost occurred in 1938?

Frost's wife died of heart failure

Frost's son died of heart failure

Frost died of heart failure

Frost's daughter died of heart failure
17 Who was the inspiration for "A Witness Tree"?

Ezra Pound

Isabelle Moodie

Kay Morrison

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

Dartmouth College

University of Michigan

Harvard University

Amherst College
19 Which of the following awards did Frost NOT receive?

The Nobel Prize in Literature

The Lifetime Fellowship of the University of Michigan

The Edward MacDowell Medal

The Congressional Gold Medal
20 How many of Frost's children suffered from mental breakdowns?

Two

Four

Three

Six
21 In the poem "Birches," what does the poet like to think causes the branches to bend?

The rain

The wind blowing

The weight of ice from an ice storm

A boy swinging on them
22 What honor did Frost receive in 1961?

He was declared the official poet laureate of the United States

He visited the Soviet Union as part of a goodwill group

He recited his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy

He received the Nobel Prize in literature
23 Which of the following poems did Frost NOT write?

I Felt a Funeral in my Brain

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Birches

Fire and Ice
24 What conflict is foremost in "Mowing"?

The conflict between imagination and practical hard work

The conflict between country life and city life

The conflict between work and religion

The conflict between God and Man
25 Fill in the blanks: "He is all _____ and I am _______. My _____ will never get across."

Pine; apple orchard; apple trees

Fire; ice; fiery ice

Pride; defiance; hatred

Loneliness; fatigue; children

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