Mcqs on the Biography of W.H.Auden

Question 1 W.H. Auden was a?
a)     British poet
b)    b.American poet
c)     c.Italin poet

Question 2. W.H. Auden was a poet, author and playwright best known as a leading literary figure in the?
a.     19th century
b.    20th century
c.      18th century.

Question 3. W.H. Auden was born Wystan Hugh Auden in York, England, on ?
a.     February 21, 1907
b.    February 22, 1907.
c.      February 21, 1906. 

Question 4. Auden pursued science and engineering at University?
a.     Cambridge University
b.    Harward University
c.      Oxford University

Question 5 Auden pursued his love of poetry, influenced by Old English verse and the poems of ?
a.     Thomas hardy.
b.    Shakespeare
c.      Keats

Question 6  He graduated from Oxford in ?
a.     1926,
b.    1927,
c.      1928,

Question 7 He wrote his acclaimed anthology, Spain, based on his first-hand accounts of the country's civil war from?

a.     1935 to 1938.
b.    1936 to 1939.
c.      1937 to 1939.

Question 8 a poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with?
a.     language.
b.    Culture
c.      Poetry.

Question 9 After moving to America, Auden's work shifted away from political influences to instead reveal more religious and ?
a.     Historical themes
b.    Spiritual themes. 

Question 10. Auden, ever the avid traveler, visited Germany, Iceland and China, and then, in 1939, moved to the?
a.     UK.
b.    US.
c.      AUS.

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