Easter, 1916 Quizzes

Easter, 1916 Quiz

1 Where did the Easter Rising take place?
Belfast

London

Sligo

Dublin
2 What was Yeats's attitude towards the Easter Rising?
Indifferent

Strongly against

Ambivalent

Completely supportive
3 What did the Irish Republicans want?
An independent Ireland

Reinstatement of Gaelic as the official language

A Protestant Northern Ireland

Unification with England
4 Before the Easter Rising, what was the speaker's relationship with the rebels?
He supported them financially

He despised all of them equally

They worked at the same offices

He made fun of them
5 According to them poem, what has "excess of love" done to the rebels?
Bewildered them

Killed them

Weakened them

Fooled them
6 “He had done most bitter wrong/To some who are near my heart.” To whom do these lines refer?
Thomas MacDonagh

John MacBridge

Patrick Pearse

Maud Gonne
7 Whose "sweet voice" turned "shrill"?
John MacBridge

Maud Gonne

Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz

Patrick Pearse
8 What does the use of "motley" show in the poem?
The speaker thinks that there is no hope

The speaker thinks that everything was bright and beautiful

The speaker thinks that everything is confused

The speaker thinks everyone was slightly ridiculous
9 The "stone" is a metaphor for what?
The heart of the revolutionary

The inability to love

The weapons used during the Easter Rising

God
10 Which is NOT given as an example of "change" in the poem?
Cloud

Horse

Stone

Stream
11 What does the line “England may keep faith" mean?
England will abandon its colonies throughout the world

England may grant Ireland independence

England will return to Catholicism

England will stop taxing Ireland
12 Death is compared to what in the poem?
Sleep

Nightmare

Stone

Birth
13 Green is a symbol for ____?
Ireland

Change

Nature

Guerrilla war
14 The poem is about events in 1916, but when did Yeats first publish it in a book?
1917

1944

1936

1921
15 Yeats's political views were ____.
Revolutionary

Pro-violence

Conservative

Pro-British
16 Who was Yeats in love with throughout his life?
Thomas MacDonagh

Maud Gonne

Dorothy Shakespear

Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz
17 Complete the line: "A _____ beauty is born."
Terrible

Beautiful

Transformed

Horrible
18 For the speaker, what is the main problem with "too long a sacrifice?"
It is only for Christ to sacrifice

It can turn the heart into a stone

It is not worth it

It can kill you
19 The poem alludes to which Biblical event?
Resurrection

Baptism

Fall from Paradise

Apocalypse
20 Now that the revolutionaries have died, what is the task for those left?
To make fun of them

To remember them

To idealize them

To emulate them
21 The stream is a symbol of _______.
Sacrifice

Repetition

Eternal life

Constant change
22 “Our wingèd horse” refers to ______.
Adventure

Magic

Poetry

Life after death
23 “And a horse plashes within it” is an example of __________.
Metonymy

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Personification
24 How can the tone of the poem NOT be described?
Mournful

Ambivalent

Elegaic

Certain
25 "That is heaven's part" is an allusion to ________.
Paradise Lost

Hamlet

The Bible

The Second Coming

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