Robert Frost MCQs
Frost married his school fellow in:
(a) 1894
(b) 1897
(c) 1896
(d) 1895
Question’s Answer: 1895
He had dropped out of Harvard without completing:
(a) 1st year
(b) 3rd year
(c) 2nd year
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 2nd year
In April 1899:
(a) A son was born to Frost
(b) were born to Frost
(c) A daughter was born to Frost
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A daughter was born to Frost
He went to the Harvard University:
(a) Four years after his marriage
(b) Three years after his marriage
(c) Two years after his marriage
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two years after his marriage
He remained at Harvard until his:
(a) Twenty Third years
(b) Twenty Fifth years
(c) Twenty Fourth years
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twenty Fourth years
Soon after 1894, he privately published a booklet containing:
(a) Six of his lyrics
(b) Five of his Lyrics
(c) Four of his lyrics
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Six of his lyrics
He lost his son inf:
(a) 1894
(b) 1892
(c) 1893
(d) 1899
Question’s Answer: 1899
Frost decided to move to England in:
(a) 1914
(b) 1913
(c) 1912
(d) 1915
Question’s Answer: 1912
His mother pass away of:
(a) Cancer
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Pneumonia
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cancer
He moved with his family to a small farm in Derry in::
(a) 1903
(b) 1901
(c) 1902
(d) 1900
Question’s Answer: 1900
Frost’s came near to death from pneumonia in:
(a) 1902
(b) 1906
(c) 1904
(d) 1907
Question’s Answer: 1906
Frost moved to England with his family at the age of:
(a) Thirty-five
(b) Forty
(c) Thirty-eight
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thirty-eight
In England, Frost found a home in a small town in:
(a) Hampshire
(b) Buckinghamshire
(c) Gloucestershire
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Buckinghamshire
“A Boy’s Will” was Frost’s:
(a) Second Volume of Poems
(b) First Volume of Poems
(c) Last Volume of Poems
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Second Volume of Poems
Frost’s second book was:
(a) A Boy’s Will
(b) Mountain
(c) North of Boston
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: North of Boston
The Frost family went back to United States in:
(a) 1914
(b) 1917
(c) 1916
(d) 1915
Question’s Answer: 1915
“Mountain Interval” was Frost’s:
(a) Fourth Book
(b) Third Book
(c) Second Book
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fourth Book
Frost spent much of his time at various colleges and universities from:
(a) 1916 to 1937
(b) 1916 to 1936
(c) 1917 to 1935
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1916 to 1936
Frost’s wife pass away in:
(a) 1937
(b) 1940
(c) 1939
(d) 1938
Question’s Answer: 1938
North of Boston’ was published in London in:
(a) 1913
(b) 1914
(c) 1912
(d) 1915
Question’s Answer: 1914
Frost was elected to membership in the American Academy in:
(a) 1933
(b) 1931
(c) 1932
(d) 1930
Question’s Answer: 1930
“Mending wall” is included in:
(a) A Boy’s Will
(b) New Hampshire
(c) North of Boston
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: North of Boston
How many characters are there in “Mending Wall”?
(a) Three Characters
(b) Two Characters
(c) Four Characters
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three Characters
Frost was given honorary degrees by more than:
(a) Forty colleges and universities
(b) Fifty colleges and universities
(c) Thirty colleges and universities
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Forty colleges and universities
The United States Senate adopted a formal resolution extending felicitation to Frost on his:
(a) Seventy-fifth birthday
(b) Eighty-fifth birthday
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Both (a) and (b)
Frost was called upon to recite his patriotic poem “The Gift Outright” in:
(a) 1964
(b) 1962
(c) 1963
(d) 1961
Question’s Answer: 1961
The major themes of Frost’s poems are:
(a) Alienation and isolation
(b) Tragedies of common people
(c) Rural and city life
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Alienation and isolation
The wall in “Mending wall” symbolizes:
(a) Simple Walls
(b) Nothing
(c) Man-made barriers suggesting division between nations,Religions, classes etc
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Man-made barriers suggesting division between nations,Religions, classes etc
“After Arple Picking” is included in:
(a) Mountain Interval
(b) A Boy’s Will
(c) North of Boston
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: North of Boston
Frost’s “West-Running Brook” was published in which year?
(a) 1927
(b) 1931
(c) 1930
(d) 1928
Question’s Answer: 1928
Who is the other character in the “Mending Wall”?
(a) An Old Farmer
(b) A Child
(c) A Woman
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: An Old Farmer
Frost’s play “A Masque of Mercy” was published in which year?
(a) 1944
(b) 1947
(c) 1945
(d) 1948
Question’s Answer: 1947
Frost’s “New Hampshire” was published in which year?
(a) 1920
(b) 1924
(c) 1923
(d) 1925
Question’s Answer: 1923
Frost pass away at the age of:
(a) Eighty-eight
(b) Eighty
(c) Ninety
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Eighty-eight
Frost pass away in:
(a) 1963
(b) 1962
(c) 1961
(d) 1964
Question’s Answer: 1963
Frost’s “A Witness Tree” was published in which year?
(a) 1945
(b) 1943
(c) 1944
(d) 1942
Question’s Answer: 1942
“Steeple-Bush” was published in which year?
(a) 1942
(b) 1947
(c) 1946
(d) 1948
Question’s Answer: 1947
All the poems in “North of Boston” deal with:
(a) New England Themes
(b) Politics
(c) Religion
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: New England Themes
Robert Frost was born in:
(a) San Francisco, California
(b) New York
(c) London
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: San Francisco, California
“New Hampshire” was Frost’s:
(a) First Volume
(b) Fourth Volume
(c) Second Volume
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fourth Volume
Frost was elected to the membership of the National institute of Arts and Letters in:
(a) 1915
(b) 1918
(c) 1917
(d) 1916
Question’s Answer: 1916
Robert Frost was born in:
(a) 1873
(b) 1875
(c) 1874
(d) 1876
Question’s Answer: 1874
Robert Frost’s mother was:
(a) Scot
(b) Italian
(c) Spanish
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Scot
Frost’s mother was a:
(a) Doctor
(b) Poetess
(c) House wife
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Poetess
Frost’s mother wanted to name Frost after Robert Burns, the greatest poet of:
(a) Scotland
(b) America
(c) England
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Scotland
What was Robert Frost’s father will?
(a) To bury him in San Francisco
(b) To take his remains to New England and bury there
(c) To bury him in England
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: To take his remains to New England and bury there
Robert Frost’s father was:
(a) New Englander
(b) Spanish
(c) New American
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: New Englander
Robert’s father wanted to name him after:
(a) Robert Burns
(b) General Lee
(c) Robert Browning
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: General Lee
Which disease ran in the family of Frost?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Jaundice
(c) Cancer
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tuberculosis
When Frost’s father pass away he was only:
(a) None of A, B, and C
(b) Ten Years Old
(c) Twelve Years Old
(d) Eleven Years Old
Question’s Answer: Eleven Years Old
The inhabitants of New England are called:
(a) Yankees
(b) American
(c) English
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Yankees
Frost’s father pass away at the age of:
(a) Thirty-four
(b) Thirty-three
(C) Thirty
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thirty-four
After burying the remains of his father in New England, Frost’s mother settled with her children in the village of:
(a) Salem, New Hampshire
(b) Buckinghamshire
(c) Gloucestershire
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Salem, New Hampshire
Frost’s father pass away in:
(a) 1889
(b) 1886
(c) 1885
(d) 1890
Question’s Answer: 1885
On the acceptance of his first professional poem, Frost received a payment of:
(a) Fifteen Dollars
(b) Twenty Dollars
(c) Sixteen Dollars
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Sixteen Dollars
Frost joined the Dartmouth college in:
(a) 1891
(b) 1894
(c) 1893
(d) 1892
Question’s Answer: 1892
He graduated from the Lawrence high school at:
(a) Seventeen
(b) Sixteen
(c) Twenty
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Seventeen
His first ‘professional’ poem was accepted by a magazine of national circulation when he was:
(a) Nineteen
(b) Eighteen
(c) Twenty
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Nineteen
His poem “My butterfly” was published in the New York Independent in:
(a) 1894
(b) 1891
(c) 1895
(d) 1896
Question’s Answer: 1894
Frost’s first poem appeared in the high school Bulletin when he was:
(a) Twenty
(b) Seventeen
(c) Fifteen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fifteen
After Apple Picking is a:
(a) Philosophical poem
(b) Nature
(c) Dramatic narrative lyric
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Nature
“The Road Not Taken” is about Frost’s:
(a) Father
(b) English poet friend
(c) Mother
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: English poet friend
“The Road Not Taken” was published in Frost’s collection of poems entitled:
(a) Mountain Interval
(b) A Boy’s. Will
(c) North of Boston
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mountain Interval
The words used in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” are:
(a) Monosyllabic
(b) Polysyllabic
(c) Disyllabic
(d) Both (a) & (c)
Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (c)
The phrase “Whatever sleep it is” in ‘After Apple Picking’ suggests:
(a) Ordinary Human Sleep
(b) Sleep of Woodchuck
(c) Sleep of Death
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Sleep of Death
The “Pasture” was used by Frost as a dedication to each of his volumes of verse except:
(a) The Last
(b) The Second
(c) The First
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Last
“West Running Brook” is in the form of a dialogue between:
(a) A brother and sister
(b) A youngman and his wife
(c) Neighbours
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A youngman and his wife
“Birches” was published in 1916 in:
(a) Mountain Interval
(b) New Hampshire
(c) A Boy’s Will
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mountain Interval
The theme of “Desert Places” is:
(a) Man’s Loneliness
(b) Death
(c) New England
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Man’s Loneliness
“An Old Man’s Winter Night” deals with:
(a) Young age
(b) Childhood
(c) Old age
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Old age
“Desert places” was published in which year?
(a) North of Boston
(b) A Further Range
(c) A Boy’s Will
Question’s Answer: A Further Range
The theme of “The Road Not Taken” is;
(a) Man-made barriers
(b) Death
(c) Choice-making
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Choice-making
“Desert Places” was published in which year?
(a) 1939
(b) 1937
(c) 1938
(d) 1936
Question’s Answer: 1936
“Two Tramps in Mud Time” was published in:
(a) 1937
(b) 1935
(c) 1936
(d) 1934
Question’s Answer: 1934
“Two Tramps in Mud Time” was published in the Volume:
(a) New Hampshire
(b) North of Boston
(c) A Further Range
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Further Range
Frost’s book “Mountain Interval” appeared in:
(a) 1915
(b) 1918
(c) 1917
(d) 1916
Question’s Answer: 1916
Who called Frost “Most Terrifying poet”?
(a) Lionel Trilling
(b) A. C. Ward
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lionel Trilling
Frost published his play “A Masque of Reason” in:
(a) 1943
(b) 1946
(c) 1945
(d) 1947
Question’s Answer: 1945
Who is the author of the “A Boy’s Will”?
(a) Robert Frost
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) John Keats
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Robert Frost
79. Frost was awarded the “Pulitzer Prize” for Poetry:
(a) Three times
(b) One time
(c) Four times
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: One time
How many plays were published by Frost?
(a) Two Plays
(b) One Play
(c) Three Plays
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two Plays
Which is not poem of Robert Frost?
(a) Mending Wall
(b) Ode to Autumn
(c) Desert Places
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ode to Autumn
Which was Frost’s last volume?
(a) North of Boston
(b) Steeple-Bush
(c) New Hampshire
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: New Hampshire
Who called Robert Frost “The great American poet of our time”?
(a) President Kennedy
(b) Robert Browning
(c) Ibsen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: President Kennedy
Where did President Kennedy send Robert Frost as a representative of the American people?
(a) Soviet Union
(b) Germany
(c) France
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: France
Robert Frost resided in England from:
(a) 1912 to 1915
(b) 1912 to 1913
(c) 1912 to 1914
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1912 to 1914
Frost called his “North of Boston”:
(a) A Book of People
(b) A Book of Nature
(c) A Book of Poets
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Book of People
“A Boy’s Will” was published in which year?
(a) 1916
(b) 1914
(c) 1915
(d) 1913
Question’s Answer: 1913