1 Who is the "O'Leary" mentioned in the poem? The painter Joseph O'Leary The Irish separatist John O'Leary The mythical Irish warrior O'Leary The eighteenth-century general William O'Leary 2 How does the speaker conceive of the relationship between Irish people today and past Irish heroes? Modern Ireland has no heroes, because their ancestors all left the country Ireland today carries the legacy of past heroes, even those whose names are lost to history Modern Ireland would distress its historical heroes, but this is a positive thing Ireland's modern middle class has betrayed the heroes of the past 3 Yeats was personally acquainted with which of the people mentioned in this poem? Emmet O'Leary Tone Fitzgerald 4 Which of the following describes the poem's tone? Jocular Bitter Businesslike Dreamy 5 What is this poem's rhyme scheme? ABBACDDC ABCDEF AABBCCDD ABBCDCD 6 What type of stanzas make up this poem? Quatrains Sestets Quintains Octaves 7 What does the word "weigh" mean in the context of this poem? Consider Measure Carry Offer input 8 What is closest to a definition of the word "delirium" as used in the poem? unconsciousness ecstasy illness stupidity 9 Who were the "wild geese"? Yeats's generation of Irish artists and writers Irish soldiers fighting in foreign armies Orphaned children growing up in Dublin The working classes of Ireland's rural counties 10 How does Yeats evoke the disjunction between past and present Irish people? By imagining how a single city has changed over the centuries By describing their respective homes and clothes By picturing various figures of Irish history touring modern Dublin By imagining them having a conversation 11 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "Was it for this"? The short I sound There is no assonance in this phrase The S sound The O sound 12 What claim is made in the poem's refrain? That poets, not soldiers, will save Ireland That Romantic Ireland is dead That there is no need for Ireland to be independent That O'Leary is dead but his legacy lives on 13 When did Robert Emmet die? In 1798, during a shootout with British forces In 1939, shortly before Yeats's own death In 1803, when he was executed for planning a rebellion In 1913, during a dispute over the Dublin lock-out 14 The phrase "maddened every mother’s son" contains which of the following? Personification Synecdoche Alliteration End rhyme 15 Which 1913 event does the poem's title refer to? The Dublin Lock-Out The Easter Rising The Spanish Flu epidemic Bloody Sunday 16 Which of the following lines contains the clearest instance of verbal irony? "little time had they to pray" "men were born to pray and save" "Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone" "They weighed so lightly what they gave" 17 In which of the poem's stanzas is the refrain somewhat altered? The third The fourth The sixth The first 18 Who is the implied addressee of the poem? The speaker's child Ireland's middle-class population in the twentieth century Irish soldiers O'Leary 19 The phrase "some woman's yellow hair" is an instance of what? Simile Synecdoche Alliteration Situational irony 20 What do Ireland's middle classes focus on, according to the speaker? Food and wine Prayer and money Luxurious material goods Education and travel 21 Who is the poem's protagonist? The speaker Fighters on behalf of Irish nationalism and independence Robert Emmet Ireland's children 22 The phrase "They have gone about the world like wind" is an instance of what device? Metaphor Verbal Irony Assonance Simile 23 What is this poem's meter? Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Anapestic trimeter Trochaic hexameter 24 Who was Edward Fitzgerald? A friend of the poet's who died shortly before this work was written A leader of the group known as the United Irishmen A fictional character from a James Joyce novel An Irish spy in the nineteenth century 25 The claim that "Romantic Ireland's dead" is an instance of what? Metaphor Metonymy Simile Synecdoche