Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

1 What does the word "mire" most closely mean?
Center

Tower

Muck

Ocean
2 Who is Hades?
An Egyptian pharaoh

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

The Greek god of the underworld
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?
Quintains

Tercets

Octaves

Sestets
4 What does the word "begot" most closely mean?
Tricked

Understood

Created

Possessed
5 What is the poem's form?
Villanelle

Sonnet

It does not follow a traditional form

Sestina
6 Which type of meter are most of the poem's lines written in?
Trochaic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Very large

Animal-like and instinctive

Extremely human-like

Possessed of unusual or magical powers
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?
Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century

An implement used in sewing and weaving

A multi-story Ottoman mansion

A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Night

Tent

Ghost

Curtain
11 What does the word "singe" most closely mean?
Monkey

Clean

Burn

Opera
12 Which objects are personified in this work?
The moon

The marbles

The domes

The bobbin
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Rivers to the underworld

Metal forgeries

Narrow alleyways

Members of the royal court
14 What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
ABABCBCDC

ABBACDDC

ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Iambic pentameter

Spondaic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter
16 The line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow" contains an instance of what?
Personification

Simile

Metaphor

Metonymy
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?
Hide

Equivocate

Blink

Dart
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?
Trochaic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?
A type of Byzantine church

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound

A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

A wormlike creature from Greek myth
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?
"mire or blood"

"Night resonance recedes"

"cannot singe a sleeve"

"moonlit dome disdains"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?
It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence

It is a conflict between the speaker and the shade

It is a conflict between the Emperor and his soldiery on the one hand, and everyday citizens on the other

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?
Ottoman history

Greek myth

Celtic legend

Easter Orthodox theology
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?
bough

trance

none of these are onomatopoetic

singe
24 The phrase "mire and blood" is a synecdoche representing what?
Family

War

The physical world

The spiritual world
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
2

3

4

5

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