Easter, 1916 Quizzes

Easter, 1916 Quiz

1 Where did the Easter Rising take place?
Belfast

London

Sligo

Dublin
2 What was Yeats's attitude towards the Easter Rising?
Ambivalent

Strongly against

Indifferent

Completely supportive
3 What did the Irish Republicans want?
A Protestant Northern Ireland

Reinstatement of Gaelic as the official language

Unification with England

An independent Ireland
4 Before the Easter Rising, what was the speaker's relationship with the rebels?
He despised all of them equally

He made fun of them

They worked at the same offices

He supported them financially
5 According to them poem, what has "excess of love" done to the rebels?
Killed them

Fooled them

Weakened them

Bewildered them
6 “He had done most bitter wrong/To some who are near my heart.” To whom do these lines refer?
Patrick Pearse

Thomas MacDonagh

Maud Gonne

John MacBridge
7 Whose "sweet voice" turned "shrill"?
John MacBridge

Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz

Maud Gonne

Patrick Pearse
8 What does the use of "motley" show in the poem?
The speaker thinks that there is no hope

The speaker thinks that everything was bright and beautiful

The speaker thinks that everything is confused

The speaker thinks everyone was slightly ridiculous
9 The "stone" is a metaphor for what?
The heart of the revolutionary

The inability to love

The weapons used during the Easter Rising

God
10 Which is NOT given as an example of "change" in the poem?
Horse

Stream

Cloud

Stone
11 What does the line “England may keep faith" mean?
England will return to Catholicism

England will abandon its colonies throughout the world

England will stop taxing Ireland

England may grant Ireland independence
12 Death is compared to what in the poem?
Stone

Birth

Nightmare

Sleep
13 Green is a symbol for ____?
Change

Guerrilla war

Ireland

Nature
14 The poem is about events in 1916, but when did Yeats first publish it in a book?
1917

1921

1936

1944
15 Yeats's political views were ____.
Pro-violence

Revolutionary

Conservative

Pro-British
16 Who was Yeats in love with throughout his life?
Maud Gonne

Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz

Dorothy Shakespear

Thomas MacDonagh
17 Complete the line: "A _____ beauty is born."
Terrible

Beautiful

Transformed

Horrible
18 For the speaker, what is the main problem with "too long a sacrifice?"
It can turn the heart into a stone

It is only for Christ to sacrifice

It is not worth it

It can kill you
19 The poem alludes to which Biblical event?
Apocalypse

Fall from Paradise

Resurrection

Baptism
20 Now that the revolutionaries have died, what is the task for those left?
To remember them

To idealize them

To emulate them

To make fun of them
21 The stream is a symbol of _______.
Repetition

Sacrifice

Constant change

Eternal life
22 “Our wingèd horse” refers to ______.
Life after death

Poetry

Adventure

Magic
23 “And a horse plashes within it” is an example of __________.
Personification

Metonymy

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia
24 How can the tone of the poem NOT be described?
Elegaic

Certain

Mournful

Ambivalent
25 "That is heaven's part" is an allusion to ________.
The Second Coming

Hamlet

Paradise Lost

The Bible

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