Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Tower Quizzes

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