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

  • 1. Byzantium is
    •     the capital of Greece
    •     a mythical king
    •     a mythical city
    •     a modern city

  • 2. At the end of "Sailing to Byzantium," the speaker imagines transformation into
    •     a woman
    •     an auto
    •     a mechanical bird
    •     a god

  • 3. In "Sailing to Byzantium," the element that death is most associated with is
    •     air
    •     fire
    •     earth
    •     water

  • 4. "The Tower" is named after Yeats'
    •     dog
    •     son
    •     ancestors
    •     home

  • 5. Yeats is
    •     French
    •     English
    •     American
    •     Irish

  • 6. The direction that the spirits would move around the speaker in "Sailing to Byzantium" is in a
    •     circle
    •     zig-zag
    •     straight line
    •     gyre

  • 7. What is the childhood activity that the speaker remembers in "The Tower"?
    •     playing jacks
    •     farming
    •     fishing
    •     swimming

  • 8. In "The Tower," the ideal peasant is named
    •     Jack
    •     Maude Gonne
    •     Hanrahan
    •     Yeats

  • 9. The symbol that Maude Gonne is best associated with is
    •     the sun
    •     the land
    •     the moon
    •     the ocean

  • 10. A reoccuring symbol for womanhood is
    •     a hole in a tree
    •     a bed
    •     a labyrinth
    •     a modern city

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