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In E.E. Cummings's poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town", who loves anyone? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 124 times
Correct: 55 times (26.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 69 times (32.9%)
Skipped: 86 times (41.0%)
  What animal is talked about in E.E. Cummings's "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 3469 times
Correct: 2858 times (57.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 611 times (12.2%)
Skipped: 1542 times (30.8%)
  "When I was young,
I was so gay and mean,
And I drank and chased the girls,
Just like young St Augustine.
Saint Augustine,
He got to be a saint.
So if I get to be one, also,
Please, Mama, don't you faint."
see if you know the answer
Answered: 146 times
Correct: 50 times (22.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 96 times (43.4%)
Skipped: 75 times (33.9%)
  What is the last line of e.e. cummings' "Next to of course god america i"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 160 times
Correct: 51 times (13.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 109 times (28.1%)
Skipped: 228 times (58.8%)
What does the "e.e." in e.e. cummings stand for? What does the "e.e." in e.e. cummings stand for? see if you know the answer
Answered: 107 times
Correct: 73 times (45.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 34 times (21.1%)
Skipped: 54 times (33.5%)
  From the e.e. cummings poem Maggie and Milly and Molly and May, which answer completes this last line?
"For what ever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find __________." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 226 times
Correct: 118 times (24.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 108 times (22.0%)
Skipped: 265 times (54.0%)
  In his collection Tulips and Chimneys e.e. cummings has a poem that begins 'when god lets my body be...' What does the poem say will sprout from each of his eyes? see if you know the answer
Answered: 167 times
Correct: 40 times (9.0%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 127 times (28.7%)
Skipped: 275 times (62.2%)
  The e.e. cummings poem that ends 
how do you like your blueeyed boy

        Mister Death

references which historical figure? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 364 times
Correct: 167 times (24.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 197 times (29.0%)
Skipped: 315 times (46.4%)
  who wrote the following?

I wanted all
things to seem to
make some sense,
so we could all
be happy, yes, instead
of tense. And I
made up lies, so
they all fit nice,
and I made this
sad world a
paradise.

see if you know the answer
Answered: 171 times
Correct: 77 times (33.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 94 times (41.0%)
Skipped: 58 times (25.3%)
  From The New Oxford Book of American Verse:

Name the quoted poet: "Buffalo Bill's defunct." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 488 times
Correct: 216 times (27.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 272 times (34.5%)
Skipped: 301 times (38.1%)
  Who said: "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" ? see if you know the answer
Answered: 549 times
Correct: 326 times (41.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 223 times (28.1%)
Skipped: 245 times (30.9%)
  Who is the poet who wrote this?

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 7068 times
Correct: 6379 times (82.1%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 689 times (8.9%)
Skipped: 701 times (9.0%)
  From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:

Name the quoted poet:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 51 times
Correct: 34 times (53.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 17 times (26.6%)
Skipped: 13 times (20.3%)
  From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:

Name the quoted poet:

Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Nor the furious winter's rages:
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers come to dust. 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 36 times
Correct: 10 times (20.0%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 26 times (52.0%)
Skipped: 14 times (28.0%)
  From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:

Name the quoted poet:

Quite unexpectedly as Vasserot
The armless ambidextrian was lighting
A match between his great and second toe,
And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting
The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum
Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough
In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb--
Quite unexpectedly the top blew off:
see if you know the answer
Answered: 30 times
Correct: 21 times (47.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 9 times (20.5%)
Skipped: 14 times (31.8%)
  From Western Wind: An Introduction To Poetry - Third Edition by John Frederick Nims:

Name the quoted poet:

My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun --
In Corners -- till a Day
The Owner passed -- identified --
And carried Me away --
see if you know the answer
Answered: 22 times
Correct: 13 times (35.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 9 times (24.3%)
Skipped: 15 times (40.5%)
  From The New Oxford Book of American Verse edited by Richard Ellmann:

Name the quoted poet:

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 26 times
Correct: 17 times (47.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 9 times (25.0%)
Skipped: 10 times (27.8%)
  In what book will you find the following immortal lyrics:

Forward, Foster's Children!
Smash apart your foes...
Faith our shield and Armor!
Strike them down by rows!

Make no peace with sinners!
God is on our side!
see if you know the answer
Answered: 85 times
Correct: 37 times (28.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 48 times (36.4%)
Skipped: 47 times (35.6%)

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