Famous Poems

Test your knowledge of some of the most famous poems in literature.

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the poem "The Raven"?

  1. Edgar Allan Poe
  2. William Shakespeare
  3. Robert Frost
  4. Emily Dickinson
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the speaker in the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"?

  1. The poet
  2. A cloud
  3. A bird
  4. A flower
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which poem begins with the line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"?

  1. The Road Not Taken
  2. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  3. Birches
  4. Mending Wall
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the poem "Ode to a Nightingale"?

  1. John Keats
  2. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  3. William Wordsworth
  4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the poem that begins with the line "Once upon a midnight dreary"?

  1. The Raven
  2. The Tell-Tale Heart
  3. The Cask of Amontillado
  4. The Fall of the House of Usher
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which poem contains the line "The world is too much with us"?

  1. The World Is Too Much with Us
  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
  4. Ode to a Nightingale
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?

  1. Dylan Thomas
  2. T.S. Eliot
  3. W.H. Auden
  4. Philip Larkin
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the poem that begins with the line "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

  1. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  2. Birches
  3. Mending Wall
  4. The Road Not Taken
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which poem contains the line "The world is too much with us"?

  1. The World Is Too Much with Us
  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
  4. Ode to a Nightingale
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

  1. T.S. Eliot
  2. Ezra Pound
  3. William Carlos Williams
  4. Wallace Stevens
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the poem that begins with the line "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"?

  1. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
  4. Ode to a Nightingale
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which poem contains the line "The world is too much with us"?

  1. The World Is Too Much with Us
  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
  4. Ode to a Nightingale
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the poem "The Waste Land"?

  1. T.S. Eliot
  2. Ezra Pound
  3. William Carlos Williams
  4. Wallace Stevens
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the poem that begins with the line "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?

  1. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
  2. And Death Shall Have No Dominion
  3. Poem in October
  4. Fern Hill
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which poem contains the line "The world is too much with us"?

  1. The World Is Too Much with Us
  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
  4. Ode to a Nightingale