Birches Poem: Objective Questions

Ques 1. When was Robert Frost born?

A.    1873

B.    1874

C.    1875

D.   1876

Ans. B

Ques 2. When did Robert Frost die?

A.    1962

B.    1962

C.    1963

D.   1964

Ans. C

Ques 3. How many times Frost won Pulitzer Prize for poetry?

A.    2 Pulitzer prizes for poetry

B.    3 Pulitzer prizes for poetry

C.    4 Pulitzer prizes for poetry

D.   5 Pulitzer prizes for poetry

Ans. C

Ques 4. In 1961, Robert Frost was made

A.    Poet Laureate of New England

B.    Poet Laureate of New York

C.    Poet Laureate of Vermont

D.   Poet Laureate of California

Ans. C

Ques 5. Birches poem was included in which poetry collection of Frost

A.    Mountain Interval

B.    A Boy’s will

C.    North of Boston

D.   New Hampshire

Ans. A

Ques 6. Birches show Frost as a

A.    Love Poet

B.    Nature Poet

C.    Spiritual Poet

D.   Poet of Death

Ans. B

Ques 7. Forst’s poem Birches is inspired from

A.    Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

B.    La Belle Dame sans merci by John Keats

C.    Swinging on a Birch-tree by Lucy Larcom

D.   Milton’s Paradise Lost

Ans. C

Ques 8. "Birches" first appeared in

A.  Spectator

B.   The Prelude

C.   The Idler

D.  Atlantic Monthly

Ans. D

Ques 9. Where did Frost spend most of his teenage years?

A.  Lawrence, Massachusetts

B.   Boston, Massachusetts

C.   San Francisco, California

D.  Franconia, New Hampshire

Ans. A

Ques 10. What was the title of the first poem that Frost published professionally?

A.  Two Roads Diverged in a Wood

B.   Fire and Ice

C.   Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

D.  My Butterfly: An Elegy

Ans. D

Ques 11. In the poem "Birches," what does the poet like to think causes the branches to bend?

A.  The wind blowing

B.   A boy swinging on them

C.   The rain

D.  The weight of ice from an ice storm

Ans. B

Ques 12. When was 'Birches' published?

A.  1900

B.   1916

C.   1925

D.  1941

Ans. B

Ques 13. . In what poetic form is 'Birches' written in?

• Blank verse.
• Heroic couplet.
• Sonnet.
• There is no strict poetic form in the poem.

Ans. A

Ques 14. What is one thing that the act of swinging might symbolize?

• The importance of scientific truth.
• The desire to escape reality.
• The desire for radical political changes.
• The importance of understanding formal philosophy.
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• Ans. B

Ques 15. Frost's poetry is primarily based upon New England life. Where was he actually born?

Pennsylvania

Massachusetts

California

Nevada

Ans. C

Ques 16. “Birches” poem's title originally comes from a line in Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth." Which poem is it?

Desert Places

A Boundless Moment

Departmental

Out, Out

Ans. D

Ques 17. "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" is a line from "Mending Wall". What is the "something" mentioned?

men/society

good neigbors

hunters/dogs

nature/narrator

Ans. D

Ques 18. What actually bends the birches down to stay in Frost's poem, "Birches"?

children playing on them

broken branches

heavy rains

ice storms

Ans. D

Ques 19. . Robert Frost, the quintessential New England poet, spent his first eleven years in what place?

• Derry, Massachusetts
• Londonderry, New Hampshire
• London, England
• San Francisco, California

Ans. D

Ques 20. From which poem is the following line extracted? “Earth’s the right place for love.”

• “Mowing”
• “Birches”
• “The Earth and other Places for Love”
• “Desert Places”

Ans. B

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