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