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