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1.   

Who received the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for the epic poem "John Brown's Body"?

    Stephen Vincent Benet
    William Cullen Bryant
    Archibald MacLeish

2.   

Who won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "Poems: North and South--A Cold Spring"?

    Laura Benet
    Elizabeth Bishop
    Frances E. W. Harper

3.   

Who wrote the poem "Precaution"?

    E. E. Cummings
    Robert Frost
    Carl Sandburg

4.   

What poet wrote "The Song of Hiawatha," "The Courtship of Miles Standish." and "Paul Revere's Ride"?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Michael Wigglesworth

5.   

What leader of the beat literary movement of the 1950's wrote a poem titled "Howl"?

    Gregory Corso
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Allen Ginsberg

6.   

Who wrote the poem "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"?

    Emily Dickinson
    Sylvia Plath
    Anne Sexton

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