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National Poetry Day Quiz 2022

Welcome to The Poetry Society's National Poetry Day 2022 quiz!

The National Poetry Day 2022 theme is 'the environment'.

Can you answer the multiple choice questions correctly by 5pm BST on Friday 7 October to be in a chance with winning a facsimile manuscript of John Milton's Paradise Lost, with illustrations by William Blake, courtesy of SP Books?

(In the event of more than one entrant getting all questions correct, a winner will be selected randomly from those entrants)
The NPD 2022 Multiple Choice Quiz
1.Most Old English poetry is anonymous, but how do we know that a poet called Cynewulf wrote his? (Question courtesy of Aliyah Begum)(Required.)
2.The last poem (a 9-page poem) in which poet’s debut collection begins with “In the dark undersurface of sea, / five hundred fathoms beneath, / dark as the giant squid’s indigestible beak // lodged inside the sperm / whale's second belly, / the ocean's sleek anatomy reveals itself”? (Question courtesy of Jayant Kashyap)(Required.)
3.Alice Oswald’s 2002 collection Dart is a reflection on which of the following? (Question courtesy of Charlotte Shevchenko Knight)(Required.)
4.In a famous Robert Frost poem, the speaker reminisces about swinging trees as a boy. What kind of tree was he referring to? (Question courtesy of Eric Yip)(Required.)
5.Which famous poets wrote a collaborative collection together at 20 places along a river? (Question courtesy of Anna Selby)(Required.)
6.On the 18th of April 1960, Sylvia Plath took her baby daughter Frieda on her first outing. Where did they go? (Question courtesy of Yvonne Reddick)(Required.)
7.Which eighteenth century poem about humankind interacting harshly with nature laments the failure of what it calls "the best-laid plans"? (Question courtesy of Richard Price)(Required.)
8.What kind of trees did Gerard Manley Hopkins despair at seeing 'felled'? (Question courtesy of Chris McCabe)(Required.)
9.How does the ‘winter evening settle down’ for T. S. Eliot? (Question courtesy of Greta Stoddart)(Required.)
10.The preface to which work includes the poem that ends "In Englands green & pleasant Land", which was set to music as a famous hymn? (question from The Poetry Society)(Required.)
11.Please give your email address here, so that we can contact you in the event that you win the prize!