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Power Up: Focus on American Poetry Diagnostic Pretest
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1. The line “and miles to go before I sleep” is repeated at
the end of “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,”
a poem by what author?
answer: Robert (Lee) Frost
2. What “Fireside Poet” wrote the long work The Song of
Hiawatha, inspired by Native American mythology?
answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. Colonial poet Anne Bradstreetʹs major collection is
titled for what figure “lately sprung up in America”?
answer: The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America
4. On what large work of art is Emma Lazarusʹs poem
“The New Colossus” inscribed?
answer: The Statue of Liberty (or Liberty Enlightening the
World or La Liberté éclairant le monde)
5. Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen were members
of what largely African‐American literary and cultural
movement of the early 20th century?
answer: the Harlem Renaissance
6. What long poem, which begins ”I saw the best minds
of my generation destroyed by madness,” was written
by Allen Ginsberg, a member of the “Beat
Generation”?
answer: Howl
7. What female poet wrote the collection Ariel and the
poem “Daddy”?
answer: Sylvia Plath
8. What poet praised the “City of the Big Shoulders” in
his poem “Chicago”?
answer: Carl (August) Sandburg
9. “April is the cruellest month” is the first line of what
long poem by T. S. Eliot?
answer: The Waste Land
10. Emily Dickinson was known as the “Belle” of what
Massachusetts town, where she spent most of her adult
life as a recluse in her family home?
answer: Belle of Amherst
11. What poet described sounding his “barbaric yawp” in
his poem “Song of Myself”?
answer: Walt(er) Whitman
12. What 19th‐century American poet wrote
“Thanatopsis” and “To a Waterfowl”?
answer: William Cullen Bryant
13. What poetʹs unusual punctuation and capitalization
are on display in “anyone lived in a pretty how town”?
answer: E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings
14. What man wrote of a creature that repeats the word
“nevermore” in his poem “The Raven”?
answer: Edgar Allan Poe
15. The two‐line poem “In a Station of the Metro” was
written by what Modernist and Imagist poet, who also
wrote the Cantos?
answer: Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound
16. Robert Lowell wrote a poem set in Boston titled for the
“dead” of an army that fought what war?
answer: American Civil War [The poem is titled “For the
Union Dead.”]
17. Poet Joyce Kilmer wrote “I think that I shall never see a
poem as lovely as” what natural object?
answer: a tree (accept Trees)
18. William Carlos Williams wrote that “so much depends
upon” what object, which is “beside the white
chickens”?
answer: The Red Wheelbarrow (accept (a red)
wheelbarrow)
19. What 20th‐century poet wrote the collection
Harmonium, which contains “Sunday Morning” and
“The Emperor of Ice Cream”?
answer: Wallace Stevens
20. What African‐American poet from Chicago wrote the
poem “We Real Cool”?
answer: Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) Brooks