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Sonnet Awards and Accolades

Description: This quiz is designed to test your knowledge of the awards and accolades that sonnets have received throughout history.
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Which sonnet won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954?

  1. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

  2. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  3. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

  4. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954.

Who was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for a sonnet?

  1. Gwendolyn Brooks

  2. Robert Hayden

  3. Nikki Giovanni

  4. Audre Lorde


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for a sonnet, which she did in 1950 for her poem "Annie Allen."

Which sonnet sequence by John Donne was published posthumously in 1633?

  1. Songs and Sonnets

  2. Holy Sonnets

  3. Divine Sonnets

  4. Love Sonnets


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

John Donne's sonnet sequence "Holy Sonnets" was published posthumously in 1633.

Which of Shakespeare's sonnets is considered to be the most famous?

  1. Sonnet 18

  2. Sonnet 29

  3. Sonnet 55

  4. Sonnet 116


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare is considered to be the most famous sonnet in the English language.

Which sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was dedicated to her husband, Robert Browning?

  1. How Do I Love Thee?

  2. Sonnets from the Portuguese

  3. A Sonnet of Sonnets

  4. The Sonnets


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet sequence "Sonnets from the Portuguese" was dedicated to her husband, Robert Browning.

Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for a sonnet?

  1. Edna St. Vincent Millay

  2. Marianne Moore

  3. Elizabeth Bishop

  4. Adrienne Rich


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for a sonnet, which she did in 1923 for her poem "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver."

Which sonnet by William Wordsworth was inspired by the death of his brother, John?

  1. Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  2. The Prelude

  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

  4. Elegiac Stanzas


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

William Wordsworth's sonnet "Elegiac Stanzas" was inspired by the death of his brother, John.

Which sonnet by John Keats was written in response to Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey?

  1. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

  2. Ode to a Nightingale

  3. Ode on a Grecian Urn

  4. To Autumn


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

John Keats' sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" was written in response to Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey.

Which sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley was inspired by the death of his wife, Harriet?

  1. Adonais

  2. Ozymandias

  3. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

  4. Ode to the West Wind


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet "Adonais" was inspired by the death of his wife, Harriet.

Which sonnet by Christina Rossetti was inspired by the death of her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti?

  1. In the Bleak Midwinter

  2. Goblin Market

  3. The House of Life

  4. Monna Innominata


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Christina Rossetti's sonnet sequence "Monna Innominata" was inspired by the death of her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Which sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins was inspired by the beauty of nature?

  1. The Windhover

  2. God's Grandeur

  3. Pied Beauty

  4. Hurrahing in Harvest


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnet "The Windhover" was inspired by the beauty of nature.

Which sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay was inspired by the death of her sister, Norma?

  1. Renascence

  2. The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver

  3. First Fig

  4. Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Edna St. Vincent Millay's sonnet "Renascence" was inspired by the death of her sister, Norma.

Which sonnet by e.e. cummings was inspired by the beauty of the natural world?

  1. i thank You God for most this amazing

  2. anyone lived in a pretty how town

  3. l(a

  4. Buffalo Bill's


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

e.e. cummings' sonnet "i thank You God for most this amazing" was inspired by the beauty of the natural world.

Which sonnet by Robert Frost was inspired by the death of his wife, Elinor?

  1. The Road Not Taken

  2. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  3. Birches

  4. Acquainted with the Night


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Robert Frost's sonnet "Acquainted with the Night" was inspired by the death of his wife, Elinor.

Which sonnet by Pablo Neruda was inspired by the beauty of his lover?

  1. Sonnet XVII

  2. Sonnet XVIII

  3. Sonnet XIX

  4. Sonnet XX


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Pablo Neruda's sonnet "Sonnet XVII" was inspired by the beauty of his lover.

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