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W. H. Auden
  • 1. When was W. H. Auden born?
A) 1910
B) 1920
C) 1895
D) 1907
  • 2. Where was W. H. Auden born?
A) York, England
B) Dublin, Ireland
C) New York, USA
D) London, England
  • 3. What is W. H. Auden known for?
A) Architecture
B) Sculpture
C) Poetry
D) Painting
  • 4. Who was W. H. Auden's longtime partner?
A) Ezra Pound
B) Dylan Thomas
C) Allen Ginsberg
D) Chester Kallman
  • 5. In which year did W. H. Auden become a United States citizen?
A) 1932
B) 1963
C) 1955
D) 1946
  • 6. Which war did W. H. Auden volunteer in during the 1930s?
A) Vietnam War
B) World War I
C) Spanish Civil War
D) World War II
  • 7. What nationality was W. H. Auden's father?
A) Scottish
B) American
C) Irish
D) English
  • 8. What is the title of W. H. Auden's famous essay collection?
A) The Prose Edda
B) The Waste Land
C) The Dyer's Hand
D) Howl and Other Poems
  • 9. Where did W. H. Auden teach as a professor later in his life?
A) Oxford University
B) Yale University
C) Cambridge University
D) Harvard University
  • 10. Who influenced W. H. Auden's poetry early in his career?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Langston Hughes
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 11. Which famous poem did W. H. Auden write in 1939?
A) September 1, 1939
B) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
C) The Waste Land
D) The Raven
  • 12. Who wrote the libretto for the 1951 opera 'The Rake's Progress' with music by Igor Stravinsky?
A) J. R. R. Tolkien
B) Virginia Woolf
C) W. H. Auden
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 13. What was W. H. Auden's first published book of poetry?
A) The Age of Anxiety
B) Poems
C) The Waste Land
D) Four Quartets
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