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You can learn some cool facts about poets and their works — and impress your friends the next time you get together.</p>\n<p><strong>1.</strong> <strong>Who was the first official U.S. Poet Laureate</strong> — Robert Penn Warren, Muriel Rukeyser, Ezra Pound, or Russell Edson?</p>\n<p><strong>2.</strong> <strong>Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry</strong> — Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, or Mona Van Duyn?</p>\n<p><strong>3.</strong> <strong>What is said to be the longest poem in world history</strong> — <em>The Mahabharata; Howl</em> by Allen Ginsberg; <em>Paradise Lost</em> by John Milton; or \"Poem #312\" by Emily Dickinson?</p>\n<p><strong>4.</strong> <strong>Who wrote the poem \"Funeral Blues,\" which was recited in the movie <em>Four Weddings and A Funeral</em></strong> — Victor Hugo, Amy Clampitt, Pablo Neruda, or W.H. 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Quick Poetry Quiz

By: The Poetry Center and John Timpane and

Updated: 03-26-2016

From The Book: Poetry For Dummies

Poetry For Dummies

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Test your knowledge of poetry by taking this quick quiz. You can learn some cool facts about poets and their works — and impress your friends the next time you get together.

1. Who was the first official U.S. Poet Laureate — Robert Penn Warren, Muriel Rukeyser, Ezra Pound, or Russell Edson?

2. Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry — Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, or Mona Van Duyn?

3. What is said to be the longest poem in world history — The Mahabharata; Howl by Allen Ginsberg; Paradise Lost by John Milton; or "Poem #312" by Emily Dickinson?

4. Who wrote the poem "Funeral Blues," which was recited in the movie Four Weddings and A Funeral — Victor Hugo, Amy Clampitt, Pablo Neruda, or W.H. Auden?

5. Which statement about Emily Dickinson is not true?

a. She lived at her parents' house her entire life.

b. She published fewer than a dozen poems during her lifetime.

c. She was left at the altar.

d. She was a bread judge at the local cattle show.

6. What did Robert Bridges, Thomas Campion, William Carlos Williams, and Henry Vaughan have in common?

7. Which one of these poets doesn't belong in this group and why?

a. Amenhotep

b. Léopold Sédar Senghor

c. Jimmy Carter

d. William Shakespeare

8. True or False: A line of iambic pentameter must have ten syllables.

9. Name the popular film from 1961 starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty that took its title from William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality." Was it Leaves of Grass, Love Canal, Splendor in the Grass, or The Grapes of Wrath?

10. Connect the place on the left with the poet associated with that place on the right:

Lesbos	Charles Baudelaire
Martinique	Lorine Niedecker
New Hampshire	Sappho
Paris	Robert Frost
Wisconsin	Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Chicago	Aimé Césaire
San Francisco	Carl Sandburg

Answers: 1. Robert Penn Warren, in 1986; 2. Sara Teasdale, in 1918; 3. The Mahabharata; 4. W.H. Auden; 5. c; 6. They were all physicians; 7. d (Shakespeare was not a head of state); 8. False; 9. Splendor in the Grass; 10. Lesbos, Sappho; Martinique, Césaire; New Hampshire, Frost; Paris, Baudelaire; Wisconsin, Niedecker; Chicago, Sandburg; San Francisco, Ferlinghetti.

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Poetry For Dummies ,

About the book authors:

The Poetry Center in San Francisco sponsors readings and awards and houses a renowned poetry archive. John Timpane, Ph.D., is the author of It Could Be Verse: Anybody's Guide to Poetry. Maureen Watts is a writer and longtime poetry activist who serves on the board of the National Poetry Association

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