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W. H. Auden
  • 1. When was W. H. Auden born?
A) 1910
B) 1920
C) 1895
D) 1907
  • 2. Where was W. H. Auden born?
A) Dublin, Ireland
B) New York, USA
C) London, England
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) Allen Ginsberg
B) Dylan Thomas
C) Chester Kallman
D) Ezra Pound
  • 5. In which year did W. H. Auden become a United States citizen?
A) 1955
B) 1932
C) 1963
D) 1946
  • 6. Which war did W. H. Auden volunteer in during the 1930s?
A) World War II
B) Spanish Civil War
C) World War I
D) Vietnam War
  • 7. What nationality was W. H. Auden's father?
A) Scottish
B) Irish
C) American
D) English
  • 8. What is the title of W. H. Auden's famous essay collection?
A) The Dyer's Hand
B) Howl and Other Poems
C) The Prose Edda
D) The Waste Land
  • 9. Where did W. H. Auden teach as a professor later in his life?
A) Yale University
B) Oxford University
C) Harvard University
D) Cambridge University
  • 10. Who influenced W. H. Auden's poetry early in his career?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Sylvia Plath
D) T. S. Eliot
  • 11. Which famous poem did W. H. Auden write in 1939?
A) The Raven
B) September 1, 1939
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) W. H. Auden
B) Leo Tolstoy
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) Poems
D) The Waste Land
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