Go Into the Woods With the Ultimate folklore Lyrics Quiz

The greatest quiz of all time was never made…until now.

I’m your Swiftie English teacher, and I’ve assembled the ultimate test of folklore knowledge just for you.

Will you be the 1 to pass? Or will it turn you into a mad woman?

Follow the invisible string through this tricky folklore lyrics quiz, and see if you can make it through the woods to the lakes.

Will you pass? I guess you never know, never know, until you try.

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folklore Lyrics Quiz

There are three general categories of questions: complete the lyric, fill-in-the-blank, and more general thematic questions that cover common imagery, metaphors, and song connections.

Some of the questions are easy, some are awfully tricky, and some have more than one right answer, so pay close attention.

At the end of the quiz, you’ll be able to see explanations for both right and wrong answers.

Each time you take the quiz, the questions will be different, so if you don’t pass on the first try, give it another shot!

Good luck, and may Taylor be with you!

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Taylor Swift folklore Lyrics Quiz

1. Fill in the blanks:
“Watching you climb
Watching you climb
Over people like me
The master of _______
Has a couple side ______
Good wives always know
She should be mad
Should be ______ like me”

flings, chicks, spitting

Spin, flings, scathing

PR, chicks, raging

lies, pieces, mental

2. How many songs on folklore describe high heels?

3

2

1

4

3. Complete the lyrics: “In my defense, I have none…” (pick as many as apply)

For digging up our past another time

For never leaving well enough alone

For digging up the grave another time

For going through the pain another time

4. Complete the lyrics: “But I would die for you in secret

The devil's in the details…”

"I'd swing with you for the fences"

"I talk shit with my friends"

“But you got a friend in me”

"Your integrity makes me seem small"

5. Complete the lyrics:
"Keep your helmet
Keep your life, son
Just a flesh wound…”

"Here's your rifle"

"You're the chosen one"

"Hand on your gun"

"It's almost done"

6. Fill in the blanks:
“A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground
With no one around to _____ it
While I bathe in cliffside pools
With my _______ love and _______ grief”

snap, heart-stopping, gut-wrenching

Tweet, calamitous, insurmountable

See, karmic, endless

Hear, endless, heart-stopping

7. Complete the lyrics: “Fifty years is a long time

Holiday House sat quietly on that beach

Free of women with madness

Their men and bad habits…."

“and then it was bought by me”

"Who knows, if I never showed up what could've been"

"I had a marvelous time ruining everything"

"There goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen"

8. Which song on folklore begins with “is it romantic”?

the lakes

exile

the 1

cardigan

9. How many songs on folklore use a love-story-as-a-film metaphor?

5

3

2

4

10. Fill in the blanks: “And I still talk to you

When I'm screaming at _______

And when you can't sleep at night

You hear my _________”

the top of my lungs, muffled cries

the heavens, broken sighs

The sky, stolen lullabies

God, heartbeat on the high line

11. Fill in the blanks: “Her _____ house on the coast took her mind off _______”

Cape Cod, Las Vegas

Cape Cod, the city

Saltbox, Milwaukee

Saltbox, St Louis

12. How many songs on folklore mention booze, drinking, or being drunk (either literally or metaphorically)?

9

8

10

7

13. Fill in the blanks: “Please picture me
In the _______
Before I learned _______
I used to ______
Ferociously”

trees, good manners, eat

weeds, civility, scream

creek, to hit my peak, dream

trees, to use my feet, dream

14. Which song on folklore takes place at a metaphorical funeral?

mad woman

my tears ricochet

epiphany

this is me trying

15. How many songs on folklore describe an affair or cheating?

4

3

6

5

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