Robert Frost - Quiz
Robert Frost
  • 1. Who edited the 1995 omnibus volume titled 'Collected Poems, Prose and Plays'?
A) Robert Faggen
B) Richard Poirier
C) William H. Pritchard
D) Welford Dunaway Taylor
  • 2. Which university press published 'The Notebooks of Robert Frost' in 2007?
A) Oxford University Press
B) Cambridge University Press
C) Harvard University Press
D) Yale University Press
  • 3. What is the subject of the book 'Riders on Pegasus' by Welford Dunaway Taylor?
A) A biography of Richard Poirier
B) Robert Frost and J. J. Lankes
C) The history of the Jones Library
D) Analysis of Robert Frost's reading voice
  • 4. Which institution houses the Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection?
A) University at Buffalo Libraries
B) University of Maryland Libraries
C) Jones Library
D) Dartmouth College Library
  • 5. The 1957 recording 'Robert Frost Reads His Poetry' was released by which company?
A) Caedmon Records
B) LibriVox
C) Harper Audio
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) Mark Richardson
C) Robert Faggen
D) Richard Poirier
  • 8. In what year were the recordings of Robert Frost reading his poems at Harper Audio produced?
A) 1966
B) 1995
C) 1957
D) 1956
  • 9. Which of these institutions holds a Robert Frost collection according to the text?
A) Library of Congress
B) Harvard University
C) Jones Library
D) The New York Public Library
  • 10. Where can one find works by Robert Frost in eBook form as listed under electronic editions?
A) Harper Audio
B) Standard Ebooks
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) 50
C) 10
D) 31
  • 12. Which university holds the most significant collection of Frost's working manuscripts?
A) University of Michigan
B) Dartmouth
C) Amherst College
D) Princeton
  • 13. Which poem served as the source for the title of Wallace Stegner's novel 'Crossing to Safety'?
A) Fire and Ice
B) Nothing Gold Can Stay
C) I Could Give All to Time
D) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • 14. According to T. K. Whipple, which of Frost's books is his harshest?
A) North of Boston
B) A Witness Tree
C) A Further Range
D) New Hampshire
  • 15. Who bestowed the United States Congressional Gold Medal upon Robert Frost in 1962?
A) Harry Truman
B) Lyndon B. Johnson
C) Dwight D. Eisenhower
D) John F. Kennedy
  • 16. Which award did Frost receive in 1963?
A) Bollingen Prize
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Congressional Gold Medal
D) Nobel Prize
  • 17. Which author was influenced by Robert Frost?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) John Keats
D) Seamus Heaney
  • 18. Which poet influenced Robert Frost?
A) Robert Francis
B) Richard Wilbur
C) James Wright
D) Thomas Hardy
  • 19. In what year did Frost receive the Pulitzer Prize for 'A Further Range'?
A) 1937
B) 1943
C) 1924
D) 1931
  • 20. Who defended Frost in the New York Times after he was elected Poet Laureate of Vermont in 1922?
A) Harriet Monroe
B) Lana Del Rey
C) Sarah Cleghorn
D) John F. Kennedy
  • 21. Which of these poets was influenced by Robert Frost?
A) William Butler Yeats
B) Edward Thomas
C) Robert Graves
D) Rupert Brooke
  • 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) 10
B) 2
C) Over 40
D) 31
  • 24. Which college library was named after Frost?
A) Amherst College
B) Oxford
C) Princeton
D) Cambridge
  • 25. According to Harriet Monroe, what is Frost's attitude toward his subjects?
A) Total madness
B) Indifferent loneliness
C) Sympathetic humor
D) Chilling starkness
  • 26. What award did Frost receive from the MacDowell Colony in 1962?
A) Congressional Gold Medal
B) Bollingen Prize
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) Edward MacDowell Medal
  • 27. Who was the Indian Prime Minister who kept a book of Frost's poetry by his bedside?
A) Pierre Trudeau
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Justin Trudeau
  • 28. In what year did Robert Frost's father die?
A) 1920
B) 1940
C) 1885
D) 1900
  • 29. What was the cause of death of Robert Frost's father?
A) Cancer
B) Cholera
C) Heart failure
D) Tuberculosis
  • 30. How many children did Robert and Elinor Frost have in total?
A) Five
B) Six
C) Four
D) Seven
  • 31. Which child of Robert Frost died of cholera?
A) Irma
B) Elliott
C) Carol
D) Marjorie
  • 32. Who was the critic that defended Frost against claims of being too traditional?
A) Randall Jarrell
B) Harold Bloom
C) William H. Pritchard
D) Charles McGrath
  • 33. To what did Robert Frost compare writing free verse?
A) Painting without a canvas
B) Playing tennis without a net
C) Running a race without a finish line
D) Singing without a melody
  • 34. Which of Frost's children died by suicide in 1940?
A) Elliott
B) Lesley
C) Irma
D) Carol
  • 35. What was the cause of Robert Frost's mother's death?
A) Cancer
B) Heart failure
C) Depression
D) Tuberculosis
  • 36. Which poet is often compared to Frost because of their shared use of New England settings?
A) Edwin Arlington Robinson
B) Thomas Hardy
C) W. B. Yeats
D) Joseph Brodsky
  • 37. What did Randall Jarrell call the regular ways of looking at Frost's poetry?
A) Grotesque simplifications
B) Highly academic
C) Perfectly accurate
D) Modernist interpretations
  • 38. Which condition did Robert Frost's wife, Elinor, suffer from throughout her life?
A) Depression
B) Heart problems
C) Cancer
D) Tuberculosis
  • 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) Four
C) Three
D) Two
  • 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) England
B) France
C) Canada
D) Brazil
  • 43. What was the name of the poem Frost recited at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy?
A) A Boy's Will
B) The Gift Outright
C) Dedication
D) The Lesson for Today
  • 44. What did Frost name his 5-acre plot in South Miami, Florida?
A) Pencil Pines
B) Greenfield Village
C) The Frost Place
D) Bread Loaf
  • 45. How old was Robert Frost when he died?
A) 86
B) 75
C) 88
D) 90
  • 46. Which specific church did Frost's mother join?
A) Catholic church
B) Swedenborgian church
C) Anglican church
D) Baptist church
  • 47. Which poetry collection was published in 1913?
A) A Boy's Will
B) Mountain Interval
C) North of Boston
D) New Hampshire
  • 48. Which poem is included in the 1916 collection Mountain Interval?
A) After Apple-Picking
B) The Demiurge's Laugh
C) Birches
D) Fire and Ice
  • 49. When was the collection New Hampshire published?
A) 1928
B) 1913
C) 1916
D) 1923
  • 50. Which collection contains the poem 'Acquainted with the Night'?
A) North of Boston
B) West-Running Brook
C) A Witness Tree
D) Mountain Interval
  • 51. In what year was the play 'A Way Out' published?
A) 1923
B) 1945
C) 1929
D) 1933
  • 52. Which poem appears in A Witness Tree?
A) The Oven Bird
B) Nothing Gold Can Stay
C) The Silken Tent
D) The Runaway
  • 53. Which volume of the scholarly edition of Frost's letters covers the years 1929–1936?
A) Volume 1
B) Volume 3
C) Volume 2
D) Volume 4
  • 54. Which collection contains the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
A) North of Boston
B) Mountain Interval
C) New Hampshire
D) A Boy's Will
  • 55. Which poem was included in the 1923 Selected Poems?
A) Fire and Ice
B) The Runaway
C) Birches
D) Out, Out
  • 56. Which collection was published in 1962?
A) In the Clearing
B) A Witness Tree
C) Steeple Bush
D) A Further Range
  • 57. How many pages are in Volume 4 of 'The Letters of Robert Frost'?
A) 750
B) 811
C) 848
D) 992
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