Robert Frost - Quiz
Robert Frost
  • 1. Who edited the 1995 omnibus volume titled 'Collected Poems, Prose and Plays'?
A) William H. Pritchard
B) Richard Poirier
C) Welford Dunaway Taylor
D) Robert Faggen
  • 2. Which university press published 'The Notebooks of Robert Frost' in 2007?
A) Harvard University Press
B) Yale University Press
C) Oxford University Press
D) Cambridge University Press
  • 3. What is the subject of the book 'Riders on Pegasus' by Welford Dunaway Taylor?
A) A biography of Richard Poirier
B) The history of the Jones Library
C) Robert Frost and J. J. Lankes
D) Analysis of Robert Frost's reading voice
  • 4. Which institution houses the Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection?
A) Jones Library
B) University at Buffalo Libraries
C) Dartmouth College Library
D) University of Maryland Libraries
  • 5. The 1957 recording 'Robert Frost Reads His Poetry' was released by which company?
A) Caedmon Records
B) Project Gutenberg
C) Harper Audio
D) LibriVox
  • 6. Which publication reported on a vandalized Frost house in 2008?
A) Library of America
B) Burlington Free Press
C) The New York Times
D) Harvard University Press
  • 7. Who edited 'The Notebooks of Robert Frost' published in 2007?
A) Mark Richardson
B) Robert Faggen
C) William H. Pritchard
D) Richard Poirier
  • 8. In what year were the recordings of Robert Frost reading his poems at Harper Audio produced?
A) 1957
B) 1956
C) 1966
D) 1995
  • 9. Which of these institutions holds a Robert Frost collection according to the text?
A) Library of Congress
B) Jones Library
C) Harvard University
D) The New York Public Library
  • 10. Where can one find works by Robert Frost in eBook form as listed under electronic editions?
A) Harper Audio
B) Caedmon Records
C) The Burlington Free Press
D) Standard Ebooks
  • 11. How many times was Robert Frost nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 40
B) 50
C) 31
D) 10
  • 12. Which university holds the most significant collection of Frost's working manuscripts?
A) Amherst College
B) Princeton
C) Dartmouth
D) University of Michigan
  • 13. Which poem served as the source for the title of Wallace Stegner's novel 'Crossing to Safety'?
A) Nothing Gold Can Stay
B) I Could Give All to Time
C) Fire and Ice
D) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • 14. According to T. K. Whipple, which of Frost's books is his harshest?
A) A Witness Tree
B) A Further Range
C) North of Boston
D) New Hampshire
  • 15. Who bestowed the United States Congressional Gold Medal upon Robert Frost in 1962?
A) Lyndon B. Johnson
B) Dwight D. Eisenhower
C) Harry Truman
D) John F. Kennedy
  • 16. Which award did Frost receive in 1963?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) Bollingen Prize
C) Congressional Gold Medal
D) Nobel Prize
  • 17. Which author was influenced by Robert Frost?
A) John Keats
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Seamus Heaney
  • 18. Which poet influenced Robert Frost?
A) James Wright
B) Robert Francis
C) Richard Wilbur
D) Thomas Hardy
  • 19. In what year did Frost receive the Pulitzer Prize for 'A Further Range'?
A) 1943
B) 1937
C) 1924
D) 1931
  • 20. Who defended Frost in the New York Times after he was elected Poet Laureate of Vermont in 1922?
A) Lana Del Rey
B) Harriet Monroe
C) Sarah Cleghorn
D) John F. Kennedy
  • 21. Which of these poets was influenced by Robert Frost?
A) Edward Thomas
B) William Butler Yeats
C) Robert Graves
D) Rupert Brooke
  • 22. Which organization elected Frost as Poet Laureate of Vermont in June 1922?
A) MacDowell Colony
B) American Philosophical Society
C) American Academy of Arts and Sciences
D) Vermont State League of Women's Clubs
  • 23. How many honorary degrees did Frost receive during his lifetime?
A) 31
B) 2
C) Over 40
D) 10
  • 24. Which college library was named after Frost?
A) Cambridge
B) Oxford
C) Princeton
D) Amherst College
  • 25. According to Harriet Monroe, what is Frost's attitude toward his subjects?
A) Indifferent loneliness
B) Sympathetic humor
C) Chilling starkness
D) Total madness
  • 26. What award did Frost receive from the MacDowell Colony in 1962?
A) Edward MacDowell Medal
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Bollingen Prize
D) Congressional Gold Medal
  • 27. Who was the Indian Prime Minister who kept a book of Frost's poetry by his bedside?
A) Pierre Trudeau
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Justin Trudeau
D) John F. Kennedy
  • 28. In what year did Robert Frost's father die?
A) 1900
B) 1940
C) 1885
D) 1920
  • 29. What was the cause of death of Robert Frost's father?
A) Heart failure
B) Cholera
C) Tuberculosis
D) Cancer
  • 30. How many children did Robert and Elinor Frost have in total?
A) Six
B) Five
C) Four
D) Seven
  • 31. Which child of Robert Frost died of cholera?
A) Carol
B) Irma
C) Marjorie
D) Elliott
  • 32. Who was the critic that defended Frost against claims of being too traditional?
A) Harold Bloom
B) Randall Jarrell
C) William H. Pritchard
D) Charles McGrath
  • 33. To what did Robert Frost compare writing free verse?
A) Singing without a melody
B) Playing tennis without a net
C) Painting without a canvas
D) Running a race without a finish line
  • 34. Which of Frost's children died by suicide in 1940?
A) Irma
B) Carol
C) Lesley
D) Elliott
  • 35. What was the cause of Robert Frost's mother's death?
A) Depression
B) Heart failure
C) Tuberculosis
D) Cancer
  • 36. Which poet is often compared to Frost because of their shared use of New England settings?
A) W. B. Yeats
B) Joseph Brodsky
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • 37. What did Randall Jarrell call the regular ways of looking at Frost's poetry?
A) Perfectly accurate
B) Grotesque simplifications
C) Modernist interpretations
D) Highly academic
  • 38. Which condition did Robert Frost's wife, Elinor, suffer from throughout her life?
A) Depression
B) Tuberculosis
C) Cancer
D) Heart problems
  • 39. In what city was Robert Frost born?
A) London, England
B) Boston, Massachusetts
C) Lawrence, Massachusetts
D) San Francisco, California
  • 40. How many Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry did Robert Frost receive?
A) Two
B) Five
C) Three
D) Four
  • 41. What was the title of Frost's first published poem?
A) My Butterfly. An Elegy
B) The Gift Outright
C) The Road Not Taken
D) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • 42. In 1912, to which country did Frost move his family to find more professional success?
A) France
B) England
C) Brazil
D) Canada
  • 43. What was the name of the poem Frost recited at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy?
A) A Boy's Will
B) The Lesson for Today
C) The Gift Outright
D) Dedication
  • 44. What did Frost name his 5-acre plot in South Miami, Florida?
A) The Frost Place
B) Pencil Pines
C) Bread Loaf
D) Greenfield Village
  • 45. How old was Robert Frost when he died?
A) 90
B) 86
C) 75
D) 88
  • 46. Which specific church did Frost's mother join?
A) Anglican church
B) Catholic church
C) Swedenborgian church
D) Baptist church
  • 47. Which poetry collection was published in 1913?
A) Mountain Interval
B) New Hampshire
C) A Boy's Will
D) North of Boston
  • 48. Which poem is included in the 1916 collection Mountain Interval?
A) The Demiurge's Laugh
B) Fire and Ice
C) After Apple-Picking
D) Birches
  • 49. When was the collection New Hampshire published?
A) 1916
B) 1913
C) 1928
D) 1923
  • 50. Which collection contains the poem 'Acquainted with the Night'?
A) West-Running Brook
B) North of Boston
C) Mountain Interval
D) A Witness Tree
  • 51. In what year was the play 'A Way Out' published?
A) 1933
B) 1923
C) 1929
D) 1945
  • 52. Which poem appears in A Witness Tree?
A) The Oven Bird
B) Nothing Gold Can Stay
C) The Runaway
D) The Silken Tent
  • 53. Which volume of the scholarly edition of Frost's letters covers the years 1929–1936?
A) Volume 2
B) Volume 4
C) Volume 1
D) Volume 3
  • 54. Which collection contains the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
A) A Boy's Will
B) Mountain Interval
C) North of Boston
D) New Hampshire
  • 55. Which poem was included in the 1923 Selected Poems?
A) The Runaway
B) Birches
C) Fire and Ice
D) Out, Out
  • 56. Which collection was published in 1962?
A) A Witness Tree
B) A Further Range
C) Steeple Bush
D) In the Clearing
  • 57. How many pages are in Volume 4 of 'The Letters of Robert Frost'?
A) 750
B) 811
C) 992
D) 848
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