MCQs: Robert Frost
Q.1 When and where was Robert Frost
born?
1.March 26, 1874, in Boston,
Massachusetts
2.March 26, 1874, in San Francisco,
California
3.Jan 29, 1874, in Lawrence,
Massachusetts
4.March 26, 1885, in New York City
Answer: 2
Explanation: Robert Frost was born on
March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California.
Q.2At what age did Robert Frost move
to New England after his father’s death?
1.5
2.8
3.11
4.15
Answer: 3
Explanation: Frost moved to New
England at age 11 after his father’s death.
Q.3 Which of the following is true about
Frost’s education?
1.He graduated from Harvard University
2.He attended Dartmouth and Harvard
but never earned a formal degree
3.He studied only at Dartmouth College
4.He completed a degree in literature
from Oxford
Answer: 2
Explanation: Frost attended both
Dartmouth and Harvard but did not complete a degree.
Q.4 Frost’s first book of poetry was
published when he was approximately:
1.25 years old
2.30 years old
3.40 years old
4.50 years old
Answer: 3
Explanation: A Boy’s Will (1913) was
published when Frost was about 39–40 years old.
Q.5 Who was Robert Frost’s wife, with
whom he shared high school valedictorian honors?
1.Isabelle Moodie
2.Elinor Miriam White
3.Marjorie Frost
4.Jeanie Frost
Answer: 2
Explanation: Elinor Miriam White was
Frost’s wife and co-valedictorian.
Q.6 Robert Frost died on:
1.January 29, 1963, in Boston,
Massachusetts
2.March 26, 1963, in San Francisco
3.January 29, 1953, in Vermont
4.December 31, 1962, in New Hampshire
Answer: 1
Explanation: Frost died on January 29,
1963, in Boston.
Q.7 Which poem by Robert Frost
contains the line “Good fences make good neighbors”?
1.The Road Not Taken
2.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
3.Mending Wall
4.Fire and Ice
Answer: 3
Explanation: The line appears in
Mending Wall.
Q.8 In which collection was the poem
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” first published?
1.A Boy’s Will
2.North of Boston
3.New Hampshire
4.Mountain Interval
Answer: 3
Explanation: The poem appears in New
Hampshire (1923).
Q.9 Which of the following is NOT a
famous poem by Robert Frost?
1.Birches
2.The Gift Outright
3.Acquainted with the Night
4.The Waste Land
Answer: 4
Explanation: The Waste Land is by T.
S. Eliot.
Q.10 Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”
was first published in:
1.1915
2.1913
3.1923
4.1936
Answer: 1
Explanation: The poem was first
published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1915.
Q.11 Which book earned Robert Frost
his first Pulitzer Prize?
1.A Boy’s Will (1913)
2.North of Boston (1914)
3.New Hampshire (1923)
4.A Witness Tree (1942)
Answer: 3
Explanation: New Hampshire won Frost
his first Pulitzer Prize in 1924.
Q.12 How many Pulitzer Prizes for
Poetry did Robert Frost win?
1.2
2.3
3.4
4.5
Answer: 3
Explanation: Frost won four Pulitzer
Prizes.
Q.13 Robert Frost is best known for
his depictions of:
1.Urban city life in New York
2.Rural life in New England
3.Mythological themes from ancient
Greece
4.Industrial revolution settings
Answer: 2
Explanation: Frost is known for rural
New England settings.
Q.14 Which U.S. President invited
Robert Frost to read a poem at his inauguration?
1.Franklin D. Roosevelt
2.Dwight D. Eisenhower
3.John F. Kennedy
4.Lyndon B. Johnson
Answer: 3
Explanation: Frost read at John F.
Kennedy’s inauguration.
Q.15 Which of the following best
describes Frost’s literary legacy?
1.He was primarily a modernist
experimental poet
2.He is the only poet to win four
Pulitzer Prizes and became one of America’s most celebrated public literary
figures
3.He wrote exclusively in free verse
4.He rejected traditional forms and
colloquial speech
Answer: 2
Explanation: Frost uniquely won four
Pulitzers and was a major public literary figure.
Q.16 Robert Frost’s father was a:
1.School teacher
2.Journalist and politician
3.Farmer
4.Lawyer
Answer: 2
Explanation: His father was a
journalist and politically active.
Q.17 How many children did Robert
Frost and Elinor White have?
1.4
2.5
3.6
4.7
Answer: 3
Explanation: They had six children. Four
of them died, before the poet’s death.
Q.18 Before gaining fame as a poet,
Frost worked as all of the following EXCEPT:
1.Factory worker
2.Newspaper deliveryman
3.Shoe factory worker
4.Professional athlete
Answer: 4
Explanation: Frost never worked as a
professional athlete.
Q.19 Frost lived and wrote on a farm
in which town in New Hampshire for several years?
1.Concord
2.Derry
3.Hanover
4.Nashua
Answer: 2
Explanation: Frost lived in Derry, New
Hampshire.
Q.20 Which university did Frost serve
as Poet-in-Residence or faculty member for the longest period?
1.Harvard
2.Dartmouth
3.Amherst College
4.University of Michigan
Answer: 3
Explanation: Frost had a long
association with Amherst College.
Q.21 In 1958–59, Robert Frost held the
position of:
1.U.S. Poet Laureate
2.Consultant in Poetry to the Library
of Congress
3.Ambassador to England
4.President of the Poetry Society of
America
Answer: 2
Explanation: This was the earlier
title for Poet Laureate.
Q.22 Which poem by Robert Frost
contains the famous lines “Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to
hold.”?
1.Birches
2.Fire and Ice
3.Nothing Gold Can Stay
4.The Oven Bird
Answer: 3
Explanation: The line is from the poem
of the same name.
Q.23 The poem “Out, Out—” draws its
title from a line in which Shakespeare play?
1.Hamlet
2.Macbeth
3.King Lear
4.Othello
Answer: 2
Explanation: It comes from: “Out, out,
brief candle!”, a famous quote from William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth (Act
V, Scene V).
Q.24Which of the following collections
was published in 1914?
1.A Boy’s Will
2.North of Boston
3.Mountain Interval
4.West-Running Brook
Answer: 2
Explanation: North of Boston was
published in 1914.
Q.25 The dramatic poem “The Death of
the Hired Man” is famous for its use of:
1.Blank verse dialogue
2.Free verse
3.Sonnet form
4.Rhyming couplets
Answer: 1
Explanation: It is written in blank
verse dialogue.
Q.26 Which poem begins with the line
“I have been one acquainted with the night”?
1.Desert Places
2.Acquainted with the Night
3.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
4.After Apple-Picking
Answer: 2
Explanation: This is the opening line
of the poem.
Q.27 Robert Frost received the
Congressional Gold Medal in:
1.1950
2.1960
3.1962
4.1963
Answer: 2
Explanation: He received it in 1960.
Q.28 Frost co-founded which famous
writers’ conference in Vermont?
1.Iowa Writers’ Workshop
2.Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
3.Sewanee Writers’ Conference
4.Tin House Summer Workshop
Answer: 2
Explanation: Frost helped establish
the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Q.29 Which of the following best
describes Frost’s poetic style?
1.He wrote only in free verse with no
rhyme or meter
2.He combined traditional forms with
modern themes and colloquial American speech
3.He focused exclusively on urban
industrial life
4.He avoided symbolism and metaphors
entirely
Answer: 2
Explanation: Frost blended traditional
form with modern themes.
Q.30 Frost suffered great personal
tragedy in his life. Which of the following is true?
1.All six of his children lived long
lives
2.Four of his six children died young
3.He had no children
4.Only one child survived him
Answer: 2
Explanation: Four of Frost’s six children
faced illness or died young.
Q.31 Which poem contains the line “Two
roads diverged in a yellow wood”?
1.Birches
2.The Road Not Taken
3.Mending Wall
4.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Answer: 2
Explanation: Opening line of The Road
Not Taken.
Q.32 The famous line “And miles to go
before I sleep” is repeated in which poem?
1.After Apple-Picking
2.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
3.The Road Not Taken
4.Desert Places
Answer: 2
Explanation: Final lines of the poem.
Q.33 In which poem does Frost write
“Good fences make good neighbors”?
1.The Death of the Hired Man
2.Mending Wall
3.Home Burial
4.Birches
Answer: 2
Explanation: Famous refrain from
Mending Wall.
Q.34Instead of being called a
"Nature poet," what term did Frost prefer to describe himself?
1. Naturalist
2. Humanist
3. Romantic
4. Traditionalist
Answer: 2
Explanation: He called himself as
humanist, instead of nature poet, in an 1952 interview.
Q.35“The land was ours before we were
the land’s” was read at:
1.Roosevelt’s inauguration
2.Kennedy’s inauguration
3.Nobel ceremony
4.Congressional session
Answer: 2
Explanation: Frost recited The Gift
Outright at Kennedy’s inauguration.
Q.36 Identify the poem that contains:
“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.”
1.Fire and Ice
2.Birches
3.Out, Out—
4.The Gift Outright
Answer: 1
Explanation: Famous opening lines.
Q.37 The line “I’d like to get away
from earth awhile” appears in which poem?
1.Birches
2.The Road Not Taken
3.Mending Wall
4.After Apple-Picking
Answer: 1
Explanation: From Birches.
Q.38 Which poem ends with the line
“And that has made all the difference”?
1.The Road Not Taken
2.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
3.Mending Wall
4.Fire and Ice
Answer: 1
Explanation: Final line of The Road
Not Taken.
Q.39 The line “The woods are lovely,
dark and deep” belongs to:
1.Birches
2.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
3.Into My Own
4.A Late Walk
Answer: 2
Explanation: From Stopping by Woods on
a Snowy Evening.
Q.40 The line “We dance round in a
ring and suppose…” is from which poem?
1.The Secret Sits
2.Design
3.Provide, Provide
4.A Considerable Speck
Answer: 1
Explanation: From The Secret Sits.
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