Can You Pass This Test? Take the Ultimate Tortured Poets Department Lyrics Quiz

I was supposed to be sent away, but then I made another tricky Taylor Swift lyrics quiz.

I’m your Swiftie English teacher, and nothing makes me feel more alive than quizzing my fellow Tortured Poets.

Are you a real tough kid? You’ll have to be to take on my TTPD lyrics quiz. It’s fearsome, and wretched, and wrong, but I know you can pass this test.

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TTPD Lyrics Quiz

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

Some of these questions are easy, some are really, really tricky, and some have more than one correct answer, so pay close attention!

At the end of the quiz, you’ll be able to go back and 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 valiant roar.

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The Tortured Poets Department Lyrics Quiz

1. Complete the lyrics: “____________________ for a simple girl to rise above it”

"Too high a force"

"Too high a horse"

"Too high a hearse"

"Too high a course"

2. Fill in the blanks:

“I can feel it _______ hummin' in the way you _______

Push the reset button, we're becoming something new

Say you got somebody, I'll say, "I got someone too"

Even if it's _______, I'm leaving here with you”

Starting, flew, D.O.A.

Coming, move, handcuffed

Drumming, stare, all a lie

Crumbling, do, a bad idea

3. Which song on the album alludes to a 1911 children’s novel?

The Black Dog

I Hate it Here

Robin

The Manuscript

4. Fill in the blanks:

“I’ll tell you something about my good name, It's mine alone to disgrace

I don't cater to all these _______ dressed in ______ clothing”

Hannahs, empire's

Whiners, helpers

Empaths, narcissist

Vipers, empaths

5. Fill in the blanks:

“I keep these______ locked

In ________, inside a _______”

Yearnings, a safe, vault

Longings, lowercase, vault

Cravings, my head, vault

Fantasies, a dream, box

6. In how many songs on TTPD & The Anthology does Taylor mention blood?

7

6

5

8

7. Fill in the blanks:

“Just say when, I'd play again

He was my best friend

Down at the ______

I felt more when we played ______

Than with all the ______

'Cause he took me out of my ______…”

Sandlot, pretend, Kens, box

Sandbox, for keeps, creeps, shadow

Pitch, again, friends, mind

Playground, at ten, men, head

8. Fill in the blanks:

“Slow is the ________

_______ blood from the wound of the pricked ______

Oh, still I dream of him”

Bleeding, clotted, meeting

Clock hand, pouring, man

Leakage, ink-stained, pages

Quicksand, poison, hand

9. Complete the lyrics:

“Say it once again with feeling

How the death rattle breathing

Silenced as the soul was leaving….”

"My beloved ghost and me"

"The deflation of our dreaming"

"The ablation of our feeling"

"Leaving me bereft and reeling"

10. Complete the lyrics: “I left all I knew, you left me at the house…”

"by myself"

"by the Heath"

"with the secrets buried underneath"

"by the skin of my teeth"

11. Complete the lyrics:

“Taming a bear, making him care

Watching him jump then pulling him under….”

"And at first blush, this is fate"

"But nothing can satisfy this hunger"

"Started with a kiss "Oh, we must stop meeting like this"

"What a charming Saturday"

12. Complete the lyrics:

“I’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I'll get lost on purpose

This place made me feel worthless….”

"Nostalgia is a mind's trick"

"You see I was a debutante in another life"

"Now I seem to be scared to go outside"

"Lucid dreams like electricity"

13. Fill in the blanks (pick as many as apply):

“Who’s gonna ______ you?”

Hold

Know

Troll

Show

14. Which song on TTPD picks up where Hits Different left off?

The Tortured Poets Department

Down Bad

Fortnight

How Did it End?

15. Fill in the blanks:

“’Cause once your ______ had come

You'd treat her like ________

You didn't _______ up

In any _______of a man”

Flame, a second place, sum it, summary

Queen, an also-ran, measure, measure

Dream, a runner-up, stand, standard

Destiny, a consolation prize, pick her, picture

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