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