Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

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

Tower

Ocean

Muck
2 Who is Hades?
The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

An Egyptian pharaoh

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

Octaves

Quintains

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

Tricked

Understood

Possessed
5 What is the poem's form?
It does not follow a traditional form

Sestina

Villanelle

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

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Animal-like and instinctive

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Very large

Extremely human-like
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
A multi-story Ottoman mansion

A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world

An implement used in sewing and weaving

A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Ghost

Night

Tent

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

Clean

Opera

Monkey
12 Which objects are personified in this work?
The marbles

The bobbin

The domes

The moon
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Narrow alleyways

Metal forgeries

Rivers to the underworld

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

AABBCDDC

ABABCBCDC

ABABCDCD
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Spondaic pentameter
16 The line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow" contains an instance of what?
Metonymy

Metaphor

Personification

Simile
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?
Blink

Equivocate

Dart

Hide
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?
Dactylic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter

Trochaic tetrameter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?
A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

A type of Byzantine church

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound

A wormlike creature from Greek myth
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?
"Night resonance recedes"

"cannot singe a sleeve"

"moonlit dome disdains"

"mire or blood"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?
It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires

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 speaker and the shade
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?
Easter Orthodox theology

Ottoman history

Celtic legend

Greek myth
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?
trance

none of these are onomatopoetic

bough

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

The spiritual world

Family

War
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
5

4

3

2

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