The Lake Isle of Innisfree Quizzes

The Lake Isle of Innisfree Quiz

By K. Sharpe · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed August 09, 2021

1 What is Innisfree?

A county of Ireland

An island

A village

A heather plant
2 The poem is made up of three

Enjambments

Sestets

Voltas

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

Ralph Walden Emerson

Herman Melville

Mark Twain

Henry David Thoreau
4 What does the speaker wish to do on Innisfree?

Plant beans

Build a cabin

Tend to honeybees

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

novel

essay

sonnet

play
6 What does the speaker hope to find on Innisfree?

Death

Faeries

Peace

A lover
7 The fog is compared to

A waterfall

A cloud

A cat

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

Linnet

Honey-bee

Cricket

Hummingbird
9 "I will arise and go" is an allusion to

The Book of Luke

Revelations

Genesis

Exodus
10 Which purple plant reflects in the water of the lake?

Hydrangea

Heather

Lavender

Verbena
11 What is a linnet?

A small bird

A kind of eagle

A squirrel

A brown insect
12 Where is the speaker located?

In a city

On the boat to Innisfree

In his cabin

In Innisfree
13 What are wattles?

A kind of clay

Logs

Bricks

Bundles of sticks
14 What is one major thematic opposition in the poem?

Life versus death

Masculine versus feminine

Rural versus urban

Young versus old
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

Overly nationalistic

Superb

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

Irish currency

Irish parliament building

Irish passports

Irish airplanes
18 “Pavements grey” is an example of

Synecdoche

Allusion

Onomatopoeia

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

Onomoptaeia

Alliteration

Assonance

Melopoeia
20 Where did Yeats write the poem?

Innisfree

Sligo County

America

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

Pastoral poetry

Vorticism

Irish Literary Renaissance

Romanticism
22 Where does the speaker remember Innisfree?

In his heart

In his mind

In his ear

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

Advanced

Gourgeous

Progressive

Primitive
24 What does the cabin symbolize?

Self-reliance

Poverty

Loneliness

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

Caesura

Epigraph

Hiccup

Volta