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Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose Quiz 1

  • 1. Where was Yeats born?
    •     Dublin
    •     London
    •     Sligo
    •     Paris

  • 2. What was his father's profession?
    •     sales associate
    •     writer
    •     poet
    •     painter

  • 3. Where did Yeats live as a young adolescent?
    •     Dublin
    •     London
    •     Sligo
    •     Paris

  • 4. What language did Yeats originally write in?
    •     French
    •     English
    •     Irish
    •     Gaelic

  • 5. What form do most of Yeats's poems take?
    •     sonnet
    •     epic
    •     lyric
    •     limerick

  • 6. What form did Yeats's first important poem take?
    •     sonnet
    •     epic
    •     lyrical
    •     limerick

  • 7. When was The Rose published?
    •     1892
    •     1893
    •     1916
    •     1923

  • 8. Who was Ireland's "uncrowned king"?
    •     Eamon de Valera
    •     Parnell
    •     Patrick Pearse
    •     Yeats

  • 9. What is the unifying symbol of The Rose?
    •     a tower
    •     a castle
    •     a nettle
    •     a rose

  • 10. Which modernist writer greatly influenced Yeats later in life?
    •     Ezra Pound
    •     James Joyce
    •     Samuel Beckett
    •     Virginia Woolf

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