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Sonnet Awards and Accolades

This quiz is designed to test your knowledge of the awards and accolades that sonnets have received throughout history.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954?

  1. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
  2. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  3. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
  4. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for a sonnet?

  1. Gwendolyn Brooks
  2. Robert Hayden
  3. Nikki Giovanni
  4. Audre Lorde
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet sequence by John Donne was published posthumously in 1633?

  1. Songs and Sonnets
  2. Holy Sonnets
  3. Divine Sonnets
  4. Love Sonnets
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of Shakespeare's sonnets is considered to be the most famous?

  1. Sonnet 18
  2. Sonnet 29
  3. Sonnet 55
  4. Sonnet 116
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was dedicated to her husband, Robert Browning?

  1. How Do I Love Thee?
  2. Sonnets from the Portuguese
  3. A Sonnet of Sonnets
  4. The Sonnets
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for a sonnet?

  1. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  2. Marianne Moore
  3. Elizabeth Bishop
  4. Adrienne Rich
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by William Wordsworth was inspired by the death of his brother, John?

  1. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
  2. The Prelude
  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
  4. Elegiac Stanzas
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by John Keats was written in response to Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey?

  1. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
  2. Ode to a Nightingale
  3. Ode on a Grecian Urn
  4. To Autumn
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley was inspired by the death of his wife, Harriet?

  1. Adonais
  2. Ozymandias
  3. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
  4. Ode to the West Wind
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Christina Rossetti was inspired by the death of her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti?

  1. In the Bleak Midwinter
  2. Goblin Market
  3. The House of Life
  4. Monna Innominata
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins was inspired by the beauty of nature?

  1. The Windhover
  2. God's Grandeur
  3. Pied Beauty
  4. Hurrahing in Harvest
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay was inspired by the death of her sister, Norma?

  1. Renascence
  2. The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
  3. First Fig
  4. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by e.e. cummings was inspired by the beauty of the natural world?

  1. i thank You God for most this amazing
  2. anyone lived in a pretty how town
  3. l(a
  4. Buffalo Bill's
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Robert Frost was inspired by the death of his wife, Elinor?

  1. The Road Not Taken
  2. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  3. Birches
  4. Acquainted with the Night
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Pablo Neruda was inspired by the beauty of his lover?

  1. Sonnet XVII
  2. Sonnet XVIII
  3. Sonnet XIX
  4. Sonnet XX
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