Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose Quizzes

Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose Quiz 1

By Rachel Nolan · Edited by William C. Miller · Last reviewed November 23, 2006

1 Where was Yeats born?

Sligo

Paris

Dublin

London
2 What was his father's profession?

sales associate

writer

painter

poet
3 Where did Yeats live as a young adolescent?

Sligo

Dublin

London

Paris
4 What language did Yeats originally write in?

Gaelic

Irish

French

English
5 What form do most of Yeats's poems take?

lyric

epic

limerick

sonnet
6 What form did Yeats's first important poem take?

limerick

sonnet

epic

lyrical
7 When was The Rose published?

1923

1916

1893

1892
8 Who was Ireland's "uncrowned king"?

Eamon de Valera

Patrick Pearse

Yeats

Parnell
9 What is the unifying symbol of The Rose?

a castle

a tower

a rose

a nettle
10 Which modernist writer greatly influenced Yeats later in life?

Samuel Beckett

Ezra Pound

Virginia Woolf

James Joyce
11 Where was Yeats buried?

Sligo

London

Paris

Dublin
12 What does "Roisin Dubh" mean in Gaelic?

Ireland

Cathleen

dark rose

light rose
13 What was Yeats's most important early source of material?

Irish politics

Greek mythology

Roman mythology

Irish mythology
14 How many poems are in The Rose?

32

22

45

10
15 How did Yeats describe the Easter Rising?

"a terrible beauty is born"

"neither a borrower nor a lender be"

"horsemen, pass by!"

"the rag and bone shop of the human heart"
16 Which theater did Yeats help open?

Gate Theatre

Peacock Theatre

Gaiety Theatre

Abbey Theatre
17 What movement is Yeats usually considered to be a part of?

loyalist

the Irregulars

Irish socialism

the Gaelic revival
18 Who was the love of Yeats' life?

Maude Gonne

Beckett's daughter

Lady Gregory

Augusta O'Neill
19 How many times, unsuccessfully, did he propose to her?

three

five

two

one
20 What political body did Yeats serve in?

the Dail

the British Parliament

the Seanad

the American Senate
21 Who are the mystical religious figures that Yeats describes?

Protestants

Druids

Buddhists

Catholics
22 What philosophy did Yeats subscribe to?

Buddhism

Taoism

Confucianism

theosophy
23 Which of Yeats' plays opened the Abbey Theatre?

Purgatory

Spreading the News

Eugene Onegin

Cathleen ni Houlihan
24 What was Cathleen a representation of?

Lady Gregory

Ireland

Britain

his wife
25 What was Yeats's wife's "skill"?

skiing

divination

automated writing

tai chi

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