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W. H. Auden
Contributed by: Neal
  • 1. When was W. H. Auden born?
A) 1907
B) 1910
C) 1895
D) 1920
  • 2. Where was W. H. Auden born?
A) Dublin, Ireland
B) London, England
C) New York, USA
D) York, England
  • 3. What is W. H. Auden known for?
A) Architecture
B) Poetry
C) Sculpture
D) Painting
  • 4. Who was W. H. Auden's longtime partner?
A) Chester Kallman
B) Ezra Pound
C) Allen Ginsberg
D) Dylan Thomas
  • 5. In which year did W. H. Auden become a United States citizen?
A) 1932
B) 1946
C) 1963
D) 1955
  • 6. Which war did W. H. Auden volunteer in during the 1930s?
A) World War I
B) World War II
C) Vietnam War
D) Spanish Civil War
  • 7. What nationality was W. H. Auden's father?
A) American
B) Scottish
C) Irish
D) English
  • 8. 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
  • 9. Where did W. H. Auden teach as a professor later in his life?
A) Yale University
B) Cambridge University
C) Harvard University
D) Oxford University
  • 10. Who influenced W. H. Auden's poetry early in his career?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Langston Hughes
C) Sylvia Plath
D) T. S. Eliot
  • 11. Which famous poem did W. H. Auden write in 1939?
A) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B) The Waste Land
C) September 1, 1939
D) The Raven
  • 12. Who wrote the libretto for the 1951 opera 'The Rake's Progress' with music by Igor Stravinsky?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) W. H. Auden
C) Virginia Woolf
D) J. R. R. Tolkien
  • 13. What was W. H. Auden's first published book of poetry?
A) The Age of Anxiety
B) Four Quartets
C) The Waste Land
D) Poems
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