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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Winners (1943-1963)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1949

a)

Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck

b)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

c)

1984 by George Orwell

d)

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

2.

1955

a)

Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

b)

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

c)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

d)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

3.

1960

a)

Heart's Needle by W D Snodgrass

b)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

c)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

d)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

4.

1953

a)

Collected Poems 1917–1952 by Archibald MacLeish

b)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

d)

1984 by George Orwell

5.

1943

a)

A Witness Tree by Robert Frost

b)

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

c)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

d)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.

1944

a)

Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benet

b)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

1984 by George Orwell

d)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

7.

1961

a)

Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley

b)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

c)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

d)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

8.

1963

a)

Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams

b)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

d)

1984 by George Orwell

9.

1958

a)

Promises: Poems 1954–1956 by Robert Penn Warren

b)

The Collected Poems of Robert Frost

c)

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

d)

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

10.

1945

a)

V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro

b)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

1984 by George Orwell

d)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

11.

1957

a)

Things of This World by Richard Wilbur

b)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

c)

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

d)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

12.

1951

a)

Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg

b)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

c)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

d)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

13.

1948

a)

The Age of Anxiety by W H Auden

b)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

1984 by George Orwell

d)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

14.

1959

a)

Selected Poems 1928–1958 by Stanley Kunitz

b)

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

c)

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

d)

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

15.

1947

a)

Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell

b)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

d)

1984 by George Orwell

16.

1956

a)

Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop

b)

Poems: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

c)

Poems: Howl by Allen Ginsberg

d)

Poems: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

17.

1962

a)

Poems by Alan Dugan

b)

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

c)

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

d)

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

18.

1952

a)

Collected Poems by Marianne Moore

b)

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

c)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

d)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

19.

1954

a)

The Waking by Theodore Roethke

b)

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

c)

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

d)

Howl by Allen Ginsberg

20.

1950

a)

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

b)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

c)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

d)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury