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