National Poetry Day Quiz 2021

Welcome to The Poetry Society's National Poetry Day 2021 quiz!

The National Poetry Day 2021 theme is 'choice'.

Can you answer the multiple choice questions correctly by 2pm BST on Friday 8 October and win membership or a bundle of poetry books?

(In the event of more than one entrant getting all questions correct, a winner will be selected randomly from those entrants)

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The NPD 2021 Multiple Choice Quiz

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* 1. Which poet wrote the poem 'Tell all the truth but tell it slant'? (Question courtesy of Jenna Hunt)

John Keats

Emily Dickinson

Oscar Wilde

William Wordsworth

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* 2. Which of the following can be found in a poem? (Question courtesy of Dhruti Halambi)

aesthetic and descriptive vocabulary to help the reader visualize and give a sense of imagery

phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, rhythm, and tone to create a catchy, memorable experience

words that don't necessarily rhyme, formats and hidden secrets in the poem to make the poem surprising and suspenseful

all of the above

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* 3. The traditional bestiary was a popular medieval text containing detailed descriptions and illustrations of animals, from a religious moral perspective. The concept of the bestiary has also been used in more modern times in poetry collections, such as A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Poems (ed. Alice Oswald). How would animals be organised in a traditional bestiary? (Question courtesy of Debbie Lim)

animals were always organised alphabetically

existing animals native to Western Europe as well as exotic ones were placed separately to imaginary ones, such as unicorns, dragons and griffins

existing animals were intermingled with imaginary ones

animals were always categorised according to their terrain: air, land or water

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* 4. Which 92-year old US poet, a grandson of Joseph Pulitzer, was the partner of visual artist and writer Joe Brainard, collaborating with him on books like Sung Sex and The Champ? (Question courtesy of Charlotte Geater)

Kenward Elmslie

John Ashbery

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Donald Hall

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* 5. The poet Sharon Olds advises poets to regularly kiss which part of their own body? (Question courtesy of Liz Berry)

Elbow

Knee

Wrist

Shoulder

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* 6. Which poet wrote the following words in their diary the day before they died?

"And no more singing for the bird….
I never understood quite what was meant by God
The morning chill and clear hurts my skin while it delights my mind."

(Question courtesy of Vanessa Lampert)

Emily Dickinson

Robert Frost

Edward Thomas

Sylvia Plath

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* 7. Which of the following is not a word that appears in Lewis Carroll's poem 'Jabberwocky'? (Question courtesy of Ellora Sutton)

uffish

mome

gimble

jumbly

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* 8. When I told my boyfriend I was worried I had written about him, was his response : “Andrew, it’s only poetry…" (Question courtesy of Andrew McMillan)

"...nobody cares"

"...nobody will read it"

"...nobody will stop me in the street"

all of the above

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* 9. Who keeps the heavy gate? (question courtesy of Pascale Petit)

Despair

Pale Anguish

Lord of Death

Pestilence

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* 10. Which poet played the Poet in Federico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita? (question courtesy of Maurice Riordan)

Paolo Pasolini

George Barker

Aimé Césaire

Desmond O'Grady

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* 1. Which poet wrote the poem 'Tell all the truth but tell it slant'? (Question courtesy of Jenna Hunt)

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* 2. Which of the following can be found in a poem? (Question courtesy of Dhruti Halambi)

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* 4. Which 92-year old US poet, a grandson of Joseph Pulitzer, was the partner of visual artist and writer Joe Brainard, collaborating with him on books like Sung Sex and The Champ? (Question courtesy of Charlotte Geater)

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* 5. The poet Sharon Olds advises poets to regularly kiss which part of their own body? (Question courtesy of Liz Berry)

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* 6. Which poet wrote the following words in their diary the day before they died?"And no more singing for the bird….I never understood quite what was meant by GodThe morning chill and clear hurts my skin while it delights my mind."(Question courtesy of Vanessa Lampert)

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* 7. Which of the following is not a word that appears in Lewis Carroll's poem 'Jabberwocky'? (Question courtesy of Ellora Sutton)

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* 8. When I told my boyfriend I was worried I had written about him, was his response : “Andrew, it’s only poetry…" (Question courtesy of Andrew McMillan)

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* 9. Who keeps the heavy gate? (question courtesy of Pascale Petit)

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* 10. Which poet played the Poet in Federico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita? (question courtesy of Maurice Riordan)

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* 11. Please give your email address here, so that we can contact you in the event that you win the prize!

* 6. Which poet wrote the following words in their diary the day before they died?

"And no more singing for the bird….
I never understood quite what was meant by God
The morning chill and clear hurts my skin while it delights my mind."

(Question courtesy of Vanessa Lampert)