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