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W. H. Auden
Contributed by: Neal
  • 1. When was W. H. Auden born?
A) 1907
B) 1910
C) 1920
D) 1895
  • 2. Where was W. H. Auden born?
A) London, England
B) Dublin, Ireland
C) New York, USA
D) York, England
  • 3. What is W. H. Auden known for?
A) Architecture
B) Poetry
C) Painting
D) Sculpture
  • 4. Who was W. H. Auden's longtime partner?
A) Ezra Pound
B) Allen Ginsberg
C) Dylan Thomas
D) Chester Kallman
  • 5. In which year did W. H. Auden become a United States citizen?
A) 1963
B) 1932
C) 1955
D) 1946
  • 6. Which famous poem did W. H. Auden write in 1939?
A) The Waste Land
B) The Raven
C) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
D) September 1, 1939
  • 7. Where did W. H. Auden teach as a professor later in his life?
A) Yale University
B) Harvard University
C) Oxford University
D) Cambridge University
  • 8. What was W. H. Auden's first published book of poetry?
A) The Age of Anxiety
B) Four Quartets
C) The Waste Land
D) Poems
  • 9. Which war did W. H. Auden volunteer in during the 1930s?
A) World War II
B) Vietnam War
C) Spanish Civil War
D) World War I
  • 10. What nationality was W. H. Auden's father?
A) Scottish
B) English
C) Irish
D) American
  • 11. Who influenced W. H. Auden's poetry early in his career?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Langston Hughes
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 12. What is the title of W. H. Auden's famous essay collection?
A) The Waste Land
B) The Dyer's Hand
C) The Prose Edda
D) Howl and Other Poems
  • 13. Who wrote the libretto for the 1951 opera 'The Rake's Progress' with music by Igor Stravinsky?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) J. R. R. Tolkien
C) W. H. Auden
D) Virginia Woolf
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