Question 1
Which poet wrote the poem that begins, "Once upon a midnight dreary"?
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert Frost
- Walt Whitman
- Langston Hughes
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Poetry trivia quiz
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What the Poetry questions cover
- American Poetry
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Question 2
Which writer composed the sonnet beginning, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"?
- John Milton
- William Shakespeare
- William Blake
- John Keats
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William Shakespeare
Question 3
Who wrote a famous poem about a host of golden flowers beside a lake?
- Samuel Coleridge
- Percy Shelley
- William Wordsworth
- Lord Byron
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William Wordsworth
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