Joyce Kilmer - Quiz
  • 1. What is Joyce Kilmer's full name?
A) John Kilmer
B) Joseph Kilmer
C) James Joyce Kilmer
D) Alfred Joyce Kilmer
  • 2. In which year was Joyce Kilmer born?
A) 1900
B) 1875
C) 1886
D) 1920
  • 3. At which battle did Joyce Kilmer lose his life in World War I?
A) Battle of Ypres
B) Battle of the Somme
C) Battle of Verdun
D) Second Battle of the Marne
  • 4. What was Joyce Kilmer's profession?
A) Engineer
B) Painter
C) Politician
D) Poet
  • 5. Which university did Joyce Kilmer attend?
A) Columbia University
B) Harvard University
C) Oxford University
D) Yale University
  • 6. What nationality was Joyce Kilmer?
A) American
B) French
C) Irish
D) British
  • 7. What year did Joyce Kilmer die?
A) 1918
B) 1906
C) 1937
D) 1925
  • 8. Which war did Joyce Kilmer fight in?
A) World War II
B) World War I
C) American Civil War
D) Vietnam War
  • 9. Joyce Kilmer's son Kent served in which branch of the armed forces during World War II?
A) United States Navy
B) United States Army
C) United States Marine Corps
D) United States Air Force
  • 10. What literary device is prominent in 'Trees' by Joyce Kilmer?
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Hyperbole
D) Personification
  • 11. What is the first line of the poem 'Trees' by Joyce Kilmer?
A) I think that I shall never see
B) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
C) Because I could not stop for Death
D) Whose woods these are I think I know
  • 12. Joyce Kilmer converted to which religion before his marriage?
A) Buddhism
B) Judaism
C) Catholicism
D) Islam
  • 13. Joyce Kilmer is best known for which famous poem?
A) The Road Not Taken
B) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C) Trees
D) If
  • 14. Which magazine did Joyce Kilmer work for as a literary editor?
A) The New Yorker
B) The Atlantic
C) The Literary Digest
D) Harper's Magazine
  • 15. What type of poem is 'Trees' by Joyce Kilmer?
A) Sonnet
B) Limerick
C) Epic
D) Haiku
  • 16. In which country did Joyce Kilmer die?
A) France
B) England
C) Germany
D) Italy
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