Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

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

Center

Muck

Ocean
2 Who is Hades?
An Egyptian pharaoh

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

The Greek god of the underworld
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?
Tercets

Sestets

Octaves

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

Created

Understood

Possessed
5 What is the poem's form?
Sestina

Villanelle

It does not follow a traditional form

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

Iambic trimeter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Extremely human-like

Very large

Animal-like and instinctive

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

Iambic trimeter

Trochaic trimeter

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

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

A multi-story Ottoman mansion

A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Curtain

Night

Ghost

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

Clean

Monkey

Opera
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?
Rivers to the underworld

Narrow alleyways

Metal forgeries

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

ABBACDDC

ABABCDCD

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

Iambic trimeter

Spondaic pentameter

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

Personification

Simile

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

Blink

Hide

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

Iambic tetrameter

Dactylic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter
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 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

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

Ottoman history

Celtic legend

Greek myth
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?
Family

The physical world

The spiritual world

War
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
3

4

5

2

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