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