Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

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

Ocean

Center

Muck
2 Who is Hades?
The Greek god of the underworld

An Egyptian pharaoh

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?
Octaves

Tercets

Sestets

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

Tricked

Possessed

Created
5 What is the poem's form?
Villanelle

Sonnet

It does not follow a traditional form

Sestina
6 Which type of meter are most of the poem's lines written in?
Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Animal-like and instinctive

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Very large

Extremely human-like
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?
Dactylic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century

A multi-story Ottoman mansion

A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world

An implement used in sewing and weaving
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Ghost

Curtain

Tent

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

Monkey

Clean

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

The marbles

The domes

The moon
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Rivers to the underworld

Narrow alleyways

Members of the royal court

Metal forgeries
14 What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
ABBACDDC

ABABCDCD

ABABCBCDC

AABBCDDC
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Spondaic pentameter
16 The line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow" contains an instance of what?
Simile

Metonymy

Metaphor

Personification
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?
Dart

Hide

Blink

Equivocate
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?
Trochaic trimeter

Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

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

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound

A wormlike creature from Greek myth

A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?
"Night resonance recedes"

"cannot singe a sleeve"

"mire or blood"

"moonlit dome disdains"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?
It is a conflict between the speaker and the shade

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires

It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence

It is a conflict between the Emperor and his soldiery on the one hand, and everyday citizens on the other
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?
Celtic legend

Greek myth

Ottoman history

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

trance

singe

none of these are onomatopoetic
24 The phrase "mire and blood" is a synecdoche representing what?
The physical world

Family

War

The spiritual world
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
4

5

3

2

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