1 Which is not a characteristic of the carnivalesque? Transgression Order Performance Ephemerality 2 What was Yeats's first published work (outside of magazines)? The Faerie Queene The Countess Cathleen The Second Coming The Wanderings of Oisin 3 What mythological land does this poem reference? Narnia Oisin Faerie The Upside Down 4 What is the speaker searching for in vain? Home Love A quest A theme 5 Which is not one of the enchanted islands? Vain romance Vain gaiety Vain repose Vain battle 6 Which does not take the speaker's love? The Irish landscape The dream The fairy bride The painted stage 7 Which of these characters was Yeats' own creation? The Countess Cathleen The Fool Oisin Cuchulain 8 The Fool and the Blind Man are from what? Helena Blavatsky's occultism Yeats' imagination Tarot Christianity 9 What does "burnished" mean? Rusty Burnt Polished Gilded 10 Which is not a central theme of "The Circus Animals' Desertion"? Undying love Dreams versus reality Aging Inspiration 11 When was "The Circus Animals' Desertion" published? 1989 1939 1917 1901 12 Which artistic transition is Yeats' poetry often understood to mark? Individualism to collectivism Romanticism to modernism Capitalism to communism Nihilism to romanticism 13 Who was Yeats' longtime unrequited love? The Countess Cathleen The fairy bride Juliet Capulet Maud Gonne 14 What was Maud Gonne's principal cause? Animal rights Irish nationalism Socialism Feminism 15 Yeats was most interested in what form of thought and belief? Esoteric Judaism Nihilism Occultism Christianity 16 Who originated the term carnivalesque? Mikhail Bakhtin Fyodor Dostoevsky William Butler Yeats Helena Blavatsky 17 "The Circus Animals' Desertion" was written during what part of Yeats' career? The end The beginning Unknown The middle 18 Which poem shares "The Circus Animals' Desertion"'s poetic structure? "The Second Coming" "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" "The Song of Wandering Aengus" "Sailing to Byzantium" 19 What is the poetic structure of "The Circus Animals' Desertion"? Dactylic hexameter Trochaic tetrameter Iambic pentamenter Anapestic trimeter 20 In what year did Yeats die? 1967 1942 1939 1916 21 Which artistic tendency does "The Circus Animals' Desertion" NOT fit into? Postmodernism Romanticism Classicism Modernism 22 What is a central argument of "The Circus Animals' Desertion"? Yeats regrets his past writings The world is changing irreversibly There is a better reality beyond this one Ideas and mythologies are illusions, and reality is cold and destitute 23 Cuchulain was... An Irish saint A mythological trickster A Norse god An ancient Celtic hero 24 How long was Yeats searching for a theme? Six weeks or so Six years or so Six days or so Five lives or so 25 Where was Yeats from? Ireland Scotland England Northern Ireland
