Q.1
What is the title of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem that begins with the line: "Faster than fairies, faster than witches"?
  • In a Railway Carriage
  • From a Railway Carriage
  • On a Railway Carriage
  • To a Railway Carriage
Q.2
The poem , by Felicia Hemans, begins with the famous line: "The boy stood on the burning deck". Which battle inspired the poem?
  • Battle of Cape St Vincent
  • Battle of Copenhagen
  • Battle of the Nile
  • Battle of Trafalgar
Q.3
Who was imprisoned in 1873 for shooting the French poet Arthur Rimbaud?
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Victor Hugo
  • Paul Valery
  • Paul Verlaine
Q.4
Which American Beat poet wrote the long poem in 1956?
  • Neal Cassady
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Jack Kerouac
Q.5
What was the surname of the English humorist who devised the short verse form, the clerihew?
  • Bentley
  • Bradley
  • Clerihew
  • Cleremont
Q.6
How many syllables are there in an iambic pentameter?
  • 5
  • 7
  • 8
  • 10
Q.7
1n 2006 John Steffler was appointed Parliamentary Poet Laureate of which country?
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • New Zealand
  • South Africa
Q.8
A Japanese haiku poem has how many syllables?
  • 13
  • 15
  • 17
  • 19
Q.9
What were the first names of the British/American poet TS Eliot?
  • Thomas Staines
  • Thomas Stearns
  • Thomas Stones
  • Thomas Stynes
Q.10
Who wrote the lengthy poem ?
  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Alfred Edward Houseman
  • Henry Wadsorth Longfellow
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