Easter, 1916 Quizzes

Easter, 1916 Quiz

1 Where did the Easter Rising take place?
Belfast

Sligo

London

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

Ambivalent

Strongly against

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

An independent Ireland

Unification with England

Reinstatement of Gaelic as the official language
4 Before the Easter Rising, what was the speaker's relationship with the rebels?
They worked at the same offices

He made fun of them

He despised all of them equally

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

Bewildered them

Fooled them

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

John MacBridge

Maud Gonne

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

Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz

Patrick Pearse

Maud Gonne
8 What does the use of "motley" show in the poem?
The speaker thinks that everything was bright and beautiful

The speaker thinks everyone was slightly ridiculous

The speaker thinks that there is no hope

The speaker thinks that everything is confused
9 The "stone" is a metaphor for what?
The inability to love

The heart of the revolutionary

God

The weapons used during the Easter Rising
10 Which is NOT given as an example of "change" in the poem?
Cloud

Horse

Stone

Stream
11 What does the line “England may keep faith" mean?
England will stop taxing Ireland

England will return to Catholicism

England will abandon its colonies throughout the world

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

Nightmare

Birth

Sleep
13 Green is a symbol for ____?
Ireland

Nature

Change

Guerrilla war
14 The poem is about events in 1916, but when did Yeats first publish it in a book?
1944

1921

1917

1936
15 Yeats's political views were ____.
Revolutionary

Pro-violence

Conservative

Pro-British
16 Who was Yeats in love with throughout his life?
Dorothy Shakespear

Thomas MacDonagh

Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz

Maud Gonne
17 Complete the line: "A _____ beauty is born."
Terrible

Beautiful

Horrible

Transformed
18 For the speaker, what is the main problem with "too long a sacrifice?"
It is not worth it

It is only for Christ to sacrifice

It can kill you

It can turn the heart into a stone
19 The poem alludes to which Biblical event?
Fall from Paradise

Resurrection

Apocalypse

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

To remember them

To idealize them

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

Eternal life

Constant change

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

Adventure

Magic

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

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Metonymy
24 How can the tone of the poem NOT be described?
Certain

Ambivalent

Mournful

Elegaic
25 "That is heaven's part" is an allusion to ________.
The Bible

Paradise Lost

Hamlet

The Second Coming

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