Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

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

Tower

Center

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

The Greek god of the underworld

An Egyptian pharaoh

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?
Octaves

Sestets

Tercets

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

Possessed

Tricked

Understood
5 What is the poem's form?
It does not follow a traditional form

Villanelle

Sonnet

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

Iambic trimeter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Extremely human-like

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Very large

Animal-like and instinctive
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?
Dactylic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic trimeter

Trochaic trimeter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
An implement used in sewing and weaving

A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world

A multi-story Ottoman mansion

A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Tent

Ghost

Curtain

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

Opera

Burn

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

The moon

The domes

The marbles
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Members of the royal court

Narrow alleyways

Rivers to the underworld

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

ABABCBCDC

AABBCDDC

ABBACDDC
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Spondaic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter

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

Personification

Metonymy

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

Equivocate

Blink

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

Iambic tetrameter

Dactylic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?
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

A type of Byzantine church
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 the Emperor and his soldiery on the one hand, and everyday citizens on the other

It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?
Ottoman history

Celtic legend

Easter Orthodox theology

Greek myth
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?
The spiritual world

Family

War

The physical world
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
5

4

2

3

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