| Coverage : The Robert Frost Quiz tests your knowledge of the famous American poet.
The Robert Frost Quiz questions are carefully crafted so you can gauge how much you know about his life, his work and his impact on the world of literature.
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| 1. | Where was Robert Frost born? |
| a. | | Boston |
| b. | | Chicago |
| c. | | San Francisco |
| d. | | New York City
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| 2. | How many Pulitzer Prizes did Robert Frost win? |
| a. | | 1 |
| b. | | 3 |
| c. | | 4 |
| d. | | None
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| 3. | Robert Frost never graduated from college, but attended two different colleges briefly. What were they? |
| a. | | Harvard and Dartmouth |
| b. | | UCLA and Yale |
| c. | | Harvard and UCLA |
| d. | | Yale and Dartmouth
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| 4. | Robert Frost was invited to recite a poem at a president's inauguration. What president was this? |
| a. | | Dwight Eisenhower |
| b. | | Theodore Roosevelt |
| c. | | John F. Kennedy |
| d. | | Richard Nixon
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| 5. | Robert Frost left the United States for a time, settling in a new country. Where did he live? |
| a. | | Scotland |
| b. | | Spain |
| c. | | Germany |
| d. | | England
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| 6. | What was the name of Robert Frost's first book of poetry? |
| a. | | "North of Boston" |
| b. | | "A Boy's Will" |
| c. | | "Selected Poems" |
| d. | | "Three Poems"
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| 7. | When Robert Frost returned to America after living in another country for several years, where did he teach English? |
| a. | | Dartmouth University |
| b. | | Harvard University |
| c. | | Amherst College |
| d. | | Yale University
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| 8. | In what state is Robert Frost buried? |
| a. | | California |
| b. | | Vermont |
| c. | | Massachusetts |
| d. | | Virginia
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| 9. | From Robert Frost's famous poem, "The Road Not Taken", finish this line: "Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by …" |
| a. | | "…and that has made all the difference." |
| b. | | "…I doubted if I should ever come back." |
| c. | | "…I'm sorry I could not travel both." |
| d. | | "…and that has made so much the difference."
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| 10. | In what New York newspaper was Robert Frost's first poem, "My Butterfly" published? |
| a. | | New York Post |
| b. | | New York Times |
| c. | | The Observor |
| d. | | The Independent
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| 11. | In "An Old Man's Winter Night", what disturbed the old man's sleep? |
| a. | | A log that shifted |
| b. | | A dog that barked |
| c. | | A wind that blew |
| d. | | A bolt of lightening
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| 12. | In the Robert Frost poem, "Mending Wall," what are we told makes the best neighbors? |
| a. | | Good motives |
| b. | | Good fences |
| c. | | A happy face |
| d. | | High walls
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| 13. | In "The Wood Pile", what kind of wood does the narrator find neatly stacked? |
| a. | | Walnut |
| b. | | Pine |
| c. | | Oak |
| d. | | Maple
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| 14. | In the 1983 movie "The Outsiders", which character recites the Robert Frost poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"? |
| a. | | Ponyboy Curtis |
| b. | | Dallas Winston |
| c. | | Johnny Cade |
| d. | | Sodapop Curtis
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| 15. | In what year did Robert Frost die? |
| a. | | 1960 |
| b. | | 1958 |
| c. | | 1963 |
| d. | | 1970
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