Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

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

Ocean

Muck

Center
2 Who is Hades?
The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

An Egyptian pharaoh

The Greek god of the underworld

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

Octaves

Sestets

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

Understood

Tricked

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

Sestina

Sonnet

Villanelle
6 Which type of meter are most of the poem's lines written in?
Trochaic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

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

Extremely human-like

Very large

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

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic pentameter

Iambic pentameter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
A multi-story Ottoman mansion

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

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

Tent

Curtain

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

Opera

Burn

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

The bobbin

The domes

The marbles
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Metal forgeries

Members of the royal court

Narrow alleyways

Rivers to the underworld
14 What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
ABABCBCDC

ABBACDDC

ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC
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

Metaphor

Personification

Metonymy
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?
Equivocate

Dart

Hide

Blink
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?
Dactylic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter

Trochaic tetrameter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?
A wormlike creature from Greek myth

A type of Byzantine church

A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?
"Night resonance recedes"

"moonlit dome disdains"

"cannot singe a sleeve"

"mire or blood"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?
It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires

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
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?
Celtic legend

Easter Orthodox theology

Greek myth

Ottoman history
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?
singe

none of these are onomatopoetic

bough

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

The spiritual world

Family

The physical world
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
3

5

2

4

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