1. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
a. An awful way to earn a living
b. A game of knowledge
c. The soul exposed
d. An explosion of language

2. Sassoon and Brooke wrote whatt kind of poetry?
a. Light verse
b. Romantic
c. Political satire
d. War poems

3. Where did T. S. Eliot spend most of his childhood?
a. Denver
b. St Louis
c. Cuba
d. Toronto

4. Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess?
a. Carolyn Kizer
b. Mary Oliver
c. Sylvia Plath
d. Marianne Moore

5. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
a. 24
b. 31
c. 21
d. 28

6. In what form did Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' first become known?
a. Book of poetry
b. A radio play
c. A stage play
d. a short film

7. The magazine 'Contemporary Poetry and Prose' was inspired by which exhibition?
a. The Festival of Britain
b. The Surrealist Exhibition
c. People of the 20th Century
d. Drawing the 20th CEntury

8. Why did 'Poetry Quarterly' cease publication in 1953?
a. Owner convicted of fraud
b. Fall in Sales
c. Rise in taxation on magazines
d. Shortage of paper

9. Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
a. Politician
b. Dramatist
c. Novelist
d. Architect

10. Of which poet was it said 'Even if he's not a great poet, he's certainly a great something'?
a. Elliot
b. Kipling
c. Cummings
d. Brooke

1. A game of knowledge
2. War poems
3. St Louis
4. Sylvia Plath
5. 28
6. A radio play
7. Surrealist Exhibition
8. Owner convicted of fraud
9. Novelist
10. Kipling