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  • 1. Who edited the 1995 omnibus volume titled 'Collected Poems, Prose and Plays'?
A) Richard Poirier
B) Welford Dunaway Taylor
C) Robert Faggen
D) William H. Pritchard
  • 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) Robert Frost and J. J. Lankes
C) Analysis of Robert Frost's reading voice
D) A biography of Richard Poirier
  • 4. Which institution houses the Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection?
A) Jones Library
B) University of Maryland Libraries
C) Dartmouth College Library
D) University at Buffalo Libraries
  • 5. The 1957 recording 'Robert Frost Reads His Poetry' was released by which company?
A) Caedmon Records
B) Project Gutenberg
C) Harper Audio
D) LibriVox
  • 6. Which publication reported on a vandalized Frost house in 2008?
A) The New York Times
B) Harvard University Press
C) Library of America
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) 1956
B) 1995
C) 1966
D) 1957
  • 9. Which of these institutions holds a Robert Frost collection according to the text?
A) Library of Congress
B) The New York Public Library
C) Jones Library
D) Harvard University
  • 10. Where can one find works by Robert Frost in eBook form as listed under electronic editions?
A) Harper Audio
B) Caedmon Records
C) Standard Ebooks
D) The Burlington Free Press
  • 11. How many times was Robert Frost nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) 31
B) 50
C) 40
D) 10
  • 12. Which university holds the most significant collection of Frost's working manuscripts?
A) Amherst College
B) Dartmouth
C) Princeton
D) University of Michigan
  • 13. Which poem served as the source for the title of Wallace Stegner's novel 'Crossing to Safety'?
A) Nothing Gold Can Stay
B) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C) I Could Give All to Time
D) Fire and Ice
  • 14. According to T. K. Whipple, which of Frost's books is his harshest?
A) New Hampshire
B) A Further Range
C) A Witness Tree
D) North of Boston
  • 15. Who bestowed the United States Congressional Gold Medal upon Robert Frost in 1962?
A) John F. Kennedy
B) Lyndon B. Johnson
C) Harry Truman
D) Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 16. Which award did Frost receive in 1963?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) Bollingen Prize
C) Nobel Prize
D) Congressional Gold Medal
  • 17. Which author was influenced by Robert Frost?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Seamus Heaney
C) John Keats
D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 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) 1937
B) 1931
C) 1943
D) 1924
  • 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) John F. Kennedy
D) Sarah Cleghorn
  • 21. Which of these poets was influenced by Robert Frost?
A) Edward Thomas
B) Rupert Brooke
C) William Butler Yeats
D) Robert Graves
  • 22. Which organization elected Frost as Poet Laureate of Vermont in June 1922?
A) Vermont State League of Women's Clubs
B) American Philosophical Society
C) MacDowell Colony
D) American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 23. How many honorary degrees did Frost receive during his lifetime?
A) 2
B) 31
C) 10
D) Over 40
  • 24. Which college library was named after Frost?
A) Princeton
B) Amherst College
C) Cambridge
D) Oxford
  • 25. According to Harriet Monroe, what is Frost's attitude toward his subjects?
A) Indifferent loneliness
B) Chilling starkness
C) Total madness
D) Sympathetic humor
  • 26. What award did Frost receive from the MacDowell Colony in 1962?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) Congressional Gold Medal
C) Bollingen Prize
D) Edward MacDowell Medal
  • 27. Who was the Indian Prime Minister who kept a book of Frost's poetry by his bedside?
A) John F. Kennedy
B) Pierre Trudeau
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Justin Trudeau
  • 28. In what year did Robert Frost's father die?
A) 1900
B) 1885
C) 1920
D) 1940
  • 29. What was the cause of death of Robert Frost's father?
A) Tuberculosis
B) Heart failure
C) Cancer
D) Cholera
  • 30. How many children did Robert and Elinor Frost have in total?
A) Six
B) Seven
C) Five
D) Four
  • 31. Which child of Robert Frost died of cholera?
A) Marjorie
B) Carol
C) Irma
D) Elliott
  • 32. Who was the critic that defended Frost against claims of being too traditional?
A) William H. Pritchard
B) Randall Jarrell
C) Charles McGrath
D) Harold Bloom
  • 33. To what did Robert Frost compare writing free verse?
A) Running a race without a finish line
B) Painting without a canvas
C) Playing tennis without a net
D) Singing without a melody
  • 34. Which of Frost's children died by suicide in 1940?
A) Elliott
B) Irma
C) Lesley
D) Carol
  • 35. What was the cause of Robert Frost's mother's death?
A) Cancer
B) Tuberculosis
C) Heart failure
D) Depression
  • 36. Which poet is often compared to Frost because of their shared use of New England settings?
A) W. B. Yeats
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Edwin Arlington Robinson
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) Cancer
B) Heart problems
C) Tuberculosis
D) Depression
  • 39. In what city was Robert Frost born?
A) London, England
B) San Francisco, California
C) Boston, Massachusetts
D) Lawrence, Massachusetts
  • 40. How many Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry did Robert Frost receive?
A) Two
B) Four
C) Three
D) Five
  • 41. What was the title of Frost's first published poem?
A) The Gift Outright
B) The Road Not Taken
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) France
B) Brazil
C) England
D) Canada
  • 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) Bread Loaf
B) Pencil Pines
C) The Frost Place
D) Greenfield Village
  • 45. How old was Robert Frost when he died?
A) 86
B) 88
C) 75
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) North of Boston
C) New Hampshire
D) Mountain Interval
  • 48. Which poem is included in the 1916 collection Mountain Interval?
A) Birches
B) The Demiurge's Laugh
C) After Apple-Picking
D) Fire and Ice
  • 49. When was the collection New Hampshire published?
A) 1916
B) 1923
C) 1913
D) 1928
  • 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) 1945
B) 1929
C) 1933
D) 1923
  • 52. Which poem appears in A Witness Tree?
A) The Runaway
B) Nothing Gold Can Stay
C) The Silken Tent
D) The Oven Bird
  • 53. Which volume of the scholarly edition of Frost's letters covers the years 1929–1936?
A) Volume 2
B) Volume 3
C) Volume 4
D) Volume 1
  • 54. Which collection contains the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
A) A Boy's Will
B) North of Boston
C) New Hampshire
D) Mountain Interval
  • 55. Which poem was included in the 1923 Selected Poems?
A) The Runaway
B) Out, Out
C) Fire and Ice
D) Birches
  • 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) 848
B) 811
C) 750
D) 992
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