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W. H. Auden - Exam
Contributed by: Neal
  • 1. When was W. H. Auden born?
A) 1910
B) 1907
C) 1895
D) 1920
  • 2. Where was W. H. Auden born?
A) New York, USA
B) Dublin, Ireland
C) York, England
D) London, England
  • 3. What is W. H. Auden known for?
A) Architecture
B) Painting
C) Poetry
D) Sculpture
  • 4. Who was W. H. Auden's longtime partner?
A) Chester Kallman
B) Allen Ginsberg
C) Dylan Thomas
D) Ezra Pound
  • 5. In which year did W. H. Auden become a United States citizen?
A) 1963
B) 1946
C) 1955
D) 1932
  • 6. Which war did W. H. Auden volunteer in during the 1930s?
A) World War I
B) Vietnam War
C) Spanish Civil War
D) World War II
  • 7. What nationality was W. H. Auden's father?
A) Irish
B) American
C) Scottish
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) Howl and Other Poems
D) The Waste Land
  • 9. Where did W. H. Auden teach as a professor later in his life?
A) Harvard University
B) Yale University
C) Oxford University
D) Cambridge University
  • 10. Who influenced W. H. Auden's poetry early in his career?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Langston Hughes
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 11. Which famous poem did W. H. Auden write in 1939?
A) September 1, 1939
B) The Raven
C) The Waste Land
D) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  • 12. Who wrote the libretto for the 1951 opera 'The Rake's Progress' with music by Igor Stravinsky?
A) J. R. R. Tolkien
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) W. H. Auden
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 13. What was W. H. Auden's first published book of poetry?
A) Poems
B) Four Quartets
C) The Age of Anxiety
D) The Waste Land
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