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What Dylan Thomas play takes place in a Welsh fishing village during one day?
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146 times |
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89 times (32.6%) |
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difficult |
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57 times (20.9%) |
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What was the middle name of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas?
Dylan Thomas
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105 times |
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41 times (25.8%) |
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64 times (40.3%) |
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Dylan Thomas was born in which country?
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7180 times |
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4675 times (50.0%) |
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medium |
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2505 times (26.8%) |
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2170 times (23.2%) |
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Singer/songwriter Robert Zimmerman took his stage name from which poet?
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140 times |
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97 times (51.9%) |
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medium |
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43 times (23.0%) |
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"Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night" is an example of which of the following? Dylan Thomas
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279 times |
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124 times (22.8%) |
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155 times (28.5%) |
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Which modern poet urged us (along with his father) to 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light'?
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110 times |
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84 times (66.1%) |
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medium |
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26 times (20.5%) |
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In "Do not go gentle into that good night," Dylan Thomas urges that old age should "[r:]age, rage, against":
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599 times |
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499 times (73.9%) |
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easy |
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100 times (14.8%) |
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76 times (11.3%) |
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Which long poem mourned the death of the poet's friend Arthur Henry Hallam?
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768 times |
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537 times (43.2%) |
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medium |
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231 times (18.6%) |
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476 times (38.3%) |
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Which book is often referred to in Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog, and also serves as a rough template for a portion of the book?
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121 times |
| Correct: |
90 times (44.8%) |
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medium |
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31 times (15.4%) |
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80 times (39.8%) |
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Which fictional village is the setting for Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices
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39 times |
| Correct: |
14 times (17.1%) |
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very difficult |
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25 times (30.5%) |
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43 times (52.4%) |
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Which of these writers is NOT pictured on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album?
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105 times |
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30 times (20.7%) |
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difficult |
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75 times (51.7%) |
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40 times (27.6%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
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28 times |
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12 times (30.8%) |
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difficult |
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16 times (41.0%) |
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11 times (28.2%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
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27 times |
| Correct: |
14 times (36.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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13 times (34.2%) |
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11 times (28.9%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
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46 times |
| Correct: |
41 times (77.4%) |
| Difficulty: |
easy |
| Incorrect: |
5 times (9.4%) |
| Skipped: |
7 times (13.2%) |
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