Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

1 What does the word "mire" most closely mean?
Center

Tower

Ocean

Muck
2 Who is Hades?
A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

The Greek god of the underworld

An Egyptian pharaoh
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?
Sestets

Quintains

Octaves

Tercets
4 What does the word "begot" most closely mean?
Understood

Possessed

Created

Tricked
5 What is the poem's form?
Sestina

Sonnet

Villanelle

It does not follow a traditional form
6 Which type of meter are most of the poem's lines written in?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

Trochaic trimeter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Very large

Extremely human-like

Animal-like and instinctive

Possessed of unusual or magical powers
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world

A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century

An implement used in sewing and weaving

A multi-story Ottoman mansion
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Curtain

Ghost

Tent

Night
11 What does the word "singe" most closely mean?
Burn

Clean

Opera

Monkey
12 Which objects are personified in this work?
The bobbin

The domes

The moon

The marbles
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Narrow alleyways

Rivers to the underworld

Metal forgeries

Members of the royal court
14 What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
ABBACDDC

ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC

ABABCBCDC
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Iambic trimeter

Spondaic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter
16 The line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow" contains an instance of what?
Metaphor

Metonymy

Personification

Simile
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?
Blink

Dart

Equivocate

Hide
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?
Iambic tetrameter

Dactylic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?
A type of Byzantine church

A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

A wormlike creature from Greek myth

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?
"moonlit dome disdains"

"mire or blood"

"cannot singe a sleeve"

"Night resonance recedes"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?
It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence

It is a conflict between the speaker and the shade

It is a conflict between the Emperor and his soldiery on the one hand, and everyday citizens on the other

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?
Greek myth

Celtic legend

Ottoman history

Easter Orthodox theology
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?
bough

singe

none of these are onomatopoetic

trance
24 The phrase "mire and blood" is a synecdoche representing what?
Family

The physical world

The spiritual world

War
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
3

2

5

4

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