Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose Quizzes

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