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What colour was almost always worn by Emily Dickinson?
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404 times |
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171 times (26.9%) |
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Who said that "great geniuses have the shortest biographies?"
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71 times (25.0%) |
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Fill in the missing word in these lines by Emily Dickinson: "Much _______ is divinest sense / To a discerning eye".
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142 times |
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102 times (54.5%) |
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40 times (21.4%) |
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Which Emily Dickinson poem became the title of a novel by Jean Rhys?
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88 times |
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39 times (27.9%) |
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difficult |
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49 times (35.0%) |
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52 times (37.1%) |
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Who kindly stopped for Emily Dickinson because she could not stop for him?
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979 times |
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887 times (78.1%) |
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easy |
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92 times (8.1%) |
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When she was 20 years old, this 19th century poet was afflicted with an illness that would come to burden her for much of her life and discourage her -- shy and withdrawn as she already was by nature -- from venturing out a lot and moving in society. Yet, she would later find much strength in her marriage; even though, at least if one of her sonnets is to be believed, she was initially reluctant to accept her future husband's proposal, questioning whether his motivation for seeking her hand in marriage might not merely be pity. Who was she?
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587 times |
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382 times (56.4%) |
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medium |
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205 times (30.3%) |
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90 times (13.3%) |
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Of which famous woman poet (whom he greatly admired) did Edgar Allen Poe say in a review: "her poetic inspiration is the highest -- we can conceive of nothing more august. Her sense of Art is pure in itself"?
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92 times |
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40 times (31.3%) |
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difficult |
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52 times (40.6%) |
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36 times (28.1%) |
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To whom did Emily Dickinson write a letter in 1862 which started off thus: "Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?
The Mind is so near itself – it cannot see, distinctly – and I have none to ask –
Should you think it breathed – and had you the leisure to tell me, I should feel quick gratitude..."?
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62 times |
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31 times (32.3%) |
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difficult |
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31 times (32.3%) |
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34 times (35.4%) |
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Fill in the missing word from this Emily Dickinson poem:
"A solemn thing – it was – I said –
A Woman – _________ – to be –
And wear – if God should count me fit –
Her blameless mystery –"
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58 times |
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37 times (42.0%) |
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medium |
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21 times (23.9%) |
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30 times (34.1%) |
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A certain Mrs Mitford, who knew a famous future author as a child, later recalled her as having been "the prettiest, silliest, most affected husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers." Who is the author in question?
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114 times |
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39 times (27.3%) |
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difficult |
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75 times (52.4%) |
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29 times (20.3%) |
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Who was called the “Myth of Amherst”?
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340 times |
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264 times (46.2%) |
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medium |
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76 times (13.3%) |
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Who was painted as the “angel of the house”?
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334 times |
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274 times (48.8%) |
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medium |
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60 times (10.7%) |
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228 times (40.6%) |
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Whose baking was a winner?
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228 times |
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87 times (19.0%) |
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very difficult |
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141 times (30.8%) |
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230 times (50.2%) |
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"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"
Who wrote it?
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369 times |
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298 times (51.7%) |
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medium |
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71 times (12.3%) |
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207 times (35.9%) |
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Whose words are the following?
"Hope is the thing with feathers..."
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551 times |
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409 times (59.9%) |
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medium |
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142 times (20.8%) |
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Martha Cooley's novel The Archivist concerns a research student and the curator of the literary archive of which famous poet's manuscripts?
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31 times |
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15 times (37.5%) |
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difficult |
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16 times (40.0%) |
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What poet wrote these first lines:
Traveling through the dark I found a deer
dead on the edge of the Wilson River road
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49 times |
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27 times (42.9%) |
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22 times (34.9%) |
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In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, D.B. Caulfield asks Allie Caulfield whether Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson is the better war poet. Which poet does Allie choose?
 
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281 times |
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186 times (50.1%) |
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95 times (25.6%) |
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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."
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7008 times |
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6321 times (82.0%) |
| Difficulty: |
easy |
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687 times (8.9%) |
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699 times (9.1%) |
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"It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation."
Who wrote this?
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66 times |
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34 times (38.2%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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32 times (36.0%) |
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23 times (25.8%) |
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Fill in the name of the writer in this statement by Virginia Woolf:
"___________'s life had been an experiment from the start, an attempt to make human conventions conform more closely to human needs."
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91 times |
| Correct: |
21 times (16.2%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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70 times (53.8%) |
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Who wrote this little poem?
"Experiment to me
Is every one I meet.
If it contain a kernel?
The figure of a nut
Presents upon a tree,
Equally plausibly;
But meat within is requisite,
To squirrels and to me."
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58 times |
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40 times (46.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
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18 times (20.9%) |
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28 times (32.6%) |
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Who wrote this little poem?
"Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
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56 times |
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35 times (42.2%) |
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21 times (25.3%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands
What water lapping the bow
And scent of pine and the woodthrush singing through the fog
What images return
O my daughter."
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58 times |
| Correct: |
31 times (36.9%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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27 times (32.1%) |
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26 times (31.0%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"Carry her over the water,
And set her down under the tree,
Where the culvers white all day and all night,
And the winds from every quarter,
Sing agreeably, agreeably, agreeably of love."
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| Answered: |
63 times |
| Correct: |
22 times (28.2%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
41 times (52.6%) |
| Skipped: |
15 times (19.2%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"She hears me strike the board and say
That she is under ban
Of all good men and women,
Being mentioned with a man
That has the worst of all bad names;
And thereupon replies
That his hair is beautiful,
Cold as the March wind his eyes."
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| Answered: |
54 times |
| Correct: |
27 times (35.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
27 times (35.5%) |
| Skipped: |
22 times (28.9%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"I had this thought a while ago,
'My darling cannot understand
What I have done, or what would do
In this blind bitter land.'"
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| Answered: |
54 times |
| Correct: |
22 times (29.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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32 times (43.2%) |
| Skipped: |
20 times (27.0%) |
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Fill in the missing word from this little poem by Emily Dickinson:
"A ______ is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day."
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| Answered: |
60 times |
| Correct: |
38 times (52.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
22 times (30.1%) |
| Skipped: |
13 times (17.8%) |
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Who claimed this?
"For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its saying where executives
Would never want to tamper; it flows south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth."
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| Answered: |
52 times |
| Correct: |
15 times (19.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
| Incorrect: |
37 times (48.7%) |
| Skipped: |
24 times (31.6%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"From the ivy where it dapples
A gray ruin, stone by stone --
Do you look for grapes or apples,
Or for sad green leaves alone?
Pluck the leaves off, two or three --
Keep them for morality
When you shall be safe and gone."
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| Answered: |
50 times |
| Correct: |
25 times (33.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
25 times (33.8%) |
| Skipped: |
24 times (32.4%) |
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