The Lake Isle of Innisfree Quizzes

The Lake Isle of Innisfree Quiz

1 What is Innisfree?
A village

A county of Ireland

An island

A heather plant
2 The poem is made up of three
Voltas

Sestets

Enjambments

Quatrains
3 Which American writer's book about living in nature inspired Yeats?
Mark Twain

Herman Melville

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Walden Emerson
4 What does the speaker wish to do on Innisfree?
Build a cabin

Tend to honeybees

Plant beans

All of the above
5 The poem was originally part of a
essay

novel

play

sonnet
6 What does the speaker hope to find on Innisfree?
Faeries

A lover

Peace

Death
7 The fog is compared to
A cat

A cloud

A veil

A waterfall
8 Which animal or insect is NOT described in the poem?
Cricket

Hummingbird

Linnet

Honey-bee
9 "I will arise and go" is an allusion to
The Book of Luke

Exodus

Revelations

Genesis
10 Which purple plant reflects in the water of the lake?
Lavender

Hydrangea

Verbena

Heather
11 What is a linnet?
A small bird

A squirrel

A brown insect

A kind of eagle
12 Where is the speaker located?
In a city

In Innisfree

On the boat to Innisfree

In his cabin
13 What are wattles?
Bundles of sticks

Logs

A kind of clay

Bricks
14 What is one major thematic opposition in the poem?
Rural versus urban

Masculine versus feminine

Young versus old

Life versus death
15 Which of the following is an important motif in the poem?
Refusal

Integration

Forgetting

Hearing
16 Looking back at the poem, Yeats thought it was
Meaningless

Superb

Overly nationalistic

Old-fashioned
17 Where are the first two lines of the poem printed?
Irish airplanes

Irish passports

Irish currency

Irish parliament building
18 “Pavements grey” is an example of
Onomatopoeia

Allusion

Personfication

Synecdoche
19 The repeated sounds in “hive” and “honey” are an example of
Melopoeia

Assonance

Onomoptaeia

Alliteration
20 Where did Yeats write the poem?
London

Innisfree

Sligo County

America
21 Yeats was NOT influenced by which of the following literary genres or movements?
Vorticism

Romanticism

Pastoral poetry

Irish Literary Renaissance
22 Where does the speaker remember Innisfree?
In his mind

In his soul

In his heart

In his ear
23 How was Western Ireland normally seen in the late 19th century?
Advanced

Progressive

Gourgeous

Primitive
24 What does the cabin symbolize?
Poverty

Self-reliance

Primitiveness

Loneliness
25 The pause in the middle of each stanza's first three lines is called a
Epigraph

Volta

Caesura

Hiccup