1 Where did the Easter Rising take place? Dublin Sligo Belfast London 2 What was Yeats's attitude towards the Easter Rising? Completely supportive Ambivalent Indifferent Strongly against 3 What did the Irish Republicans want? Reinstatement of Gaelic as the official language A Protestant Northern Ireland An independent Ireland Unification with England 4 Before the Easter Rising, what was the speaker's relationship with the rebels? He made fun of them He despised all of them equally They worked at the same offices He supported them financially 5 According to them poem, what has "excess of love" done to the rebels? Weakened them Bewildered them Fooled them Killed them 6 “He had done most bitter wrong/To some who are near my heart.” To whom do these lines refer? John MacBridge Patrick Pearse Maud Gonne Thomas MacDonagh 7 Whose "sweet voice" turned "shrill"? John MacBridge Maud Gonne Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz Patrick Pearse 8 What does the use of "motley" show in the poem? The speaker thinks everyone was slightly ridiculous The speaker thinks that everything was bright and beautiful The speaker thinks that everything is confused The speaker thinks that there is no hope 9 The "stone" is a metaphor for what? The heart of the revolutionary The inability to love The weapons used during the Easter Rising God 10 Which is NOT given as an example of "change" in the poem? Stream Cloud Horse Stone 11 What does the line “England may keep faith" mean? England will abandon its colonies throughout the world England will stop taxing Ireland England will return to Catholicism England may grant Ireland independence 12 Death is compared to what in the poem? Stone Birth Nightmare Sleep 13 Green is a symbol for ____? Ireland Change Nature Guerrilla war 14 The poem is about events in 1916, but when did Yeats first publish it in a book? 1936 1944 1921 1917 15 Yeats's political views were ____. Conservative Pro-British Revolutionary Pro-violence 16 Who was Yeats in love with throughout his life? Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz Dorothy Shakespear Maud Gonne Thomas MacDonagh 17 Complete the line: "A _____ beauty is born." Beautiful Terrible Transformed Horrible 18 For the speaker, what is the main problem with "too long a sacrifice?" It is not worth it It can kill you It is only for Christ to sacrifice It can turn the heart into a stone 19 The poem alludes to which Biblical event? Resurrection Fall from Paradise Baptism Apocalypse 20 Now that the revolutionaries have died, what is the task for those left? To emulate them To make fun of them To remember them To idealize them 21 The stream is a symbol of _______. Eternal life Sacrifice Constant change Repetition 22 “Our wingèd horse” refers to ______. Adventure Magic Life after death Poetry 23 “And a horse plashes within it” is an example of __________. Metaphor Personification Onomatopoeia Metonymy 24 How can the tone of the poem NOT be described? Ambivalent Certain Elegaic Mournful 25 "That is heaven's part" is an allusion to ________. The Bible The Second Coming Hamlet Paradise Lost