You Know More Poetry Than You Think!

Just as we all know a little classical music from watching old Bugs Bunny cartoons, and our history from movies, everyone has picked up bits and tag ends of poetry.
  • Go through the Questions first and then check your score by going on the Internet and finding whether or not you're correct and then
  • Name the poem and poet of each.
 
Question 1:
 "The grave's a fine and private place_________"

a. quiet and dark and dim

      b. and there you can hide your face

      c. but none, I think, do there embrace

      d. and holds an end to every chase

Question 2:
 "Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, ____________"

      a. and that has made all the difference

      b. and found my way to you

      c. and shall get homeward, by and by

      d. and can't get back, though I try

Question 3:
 "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, a host____________"

      a. of golden daffodils

      b. of heaped and towering hills

      c. of shining angels

      d. a mob, an army

Question 4:
 "How do I love thee____________"

      a. with all my heart and soul

      b. let me count the ways

      c. when thou dost not love me?

      d. thy heart belongs to another

Question 5:
 "Here he lies where he longed to be, home is the sailor, home from sea,____________"

      a. and the hunter home from the hill

      b. and that is where he wants to be

      c. lying under the great green tree

      d. and home is the lonely traveler

Question 6:
 "Hog Butcher for the World____________"

      a. Where are your pigs?

      b. With their little tails all curled

      c. You have finished killing at last

      d. Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat

Question 7:
 "Do not go gentle into that good night_____________"

      a. Put up a darn good fight

      b. Do not waste and fade away

      c. Wait a bit, 'til morning

      d. Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Question 8:
"Stone walls do not a prison make________________"

      a. nor iron bars a cage

      b. when your spirit is free

      c. because stone can bend and break

      d. so hide a file inside the cake

Question 9:
 "In Flanders fields the poppies blow________________"

      a. between the crosses, row on row

      b. their petals waving in the wind

      c. red, red, and white

      d. and far away your loved ones go

Question 10:
 "In the room the women come and go_______________"

      a. waving their fans, to and fro

      b. and then are gone - to where?

      c. come and go, come and go

      d. talking of Michelangelo

 

Question 11:
 "Poems are made by fools like me________________"

    a. and prose is writ by fools like you

    b. and that's the birth of poetry

    c. and cast in bottles to the sea

    d. but only God can make a tree

Question 12:
 "My name is Ozymandius, king of kings, ___________"

      a. fear me

      b. I am the Lord of all I survey

      c. look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair

      d. my breast hung with jewels, my hands full of rings

Question 13:
"Men seldom make passes______________"

    a. at ugly women

    b. at ideas, drifting, dreamlike

    c. at girls who wear glasses

    d. and feints, without doubt and fear

Question 14:
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door _________"

      a. -perhaps the maid, to clean the floor"

      b. -only this and nothing more"

      c. -over the stormwind's mighty roar"

      d. -could be the one that I adore"

Question 15:
 "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!___________"

      a. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

      b. I am filled to the brim with joy

      c. You are the hero of the day

      d. Did you hit it with a rock?

Question 16:
 "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why________________"

    a. theirs not to moan and cry

    b. theirs but to do and die

    c. no choice had they but one

    d. if they only knew the reason why