| 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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What others think about Robert Frost |
| By: IDK on Dec 7, 2009 |
| | I think Robert Frost is a great dude and should go down in history as the best Vermont poet ever |
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| By: amber on Oct 28, 2009 |
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| By: Tygrr Robertson on May 29, 2009 |
| | Edward Thomas was one of Robert Frost's closest friends and critics. |
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| By: Lubna on May 21, 2009 |
| | Literary side is not coverd |
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| By: bill on Dec 2, 2008 |
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| By: samir on Nov 30, 2008 |
| | quite interesting,but merely factual. |
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