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