Easter, 1916 Quizzes

Easter, 1916 Quiz

1 Where did the Easter Rising take place?
Dublin

Belfast

Sligo

London
2 What was Yeats's attitude towards the Easter Rising?
Strongly against

Ambivalent

Completely supportive

Indifferent
3 What did the Irish Republicans want?
Reinstatement of Gaelic as the official language

A Protestant Northern Ireland

Unification with England

An independent Ireland
4 Before the Easter Rising, what was the speaker's relationship with the rebels?
He made fun of them

They worked at the same offices

He supported them financially

He despised all of them equally
5 According to them poem, what has "excess of love" done to the rebels?
Fooled them

Weakened them

Killed them

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

Maud Gonne

Thomas MacDonagh

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

John MacBridge

Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz

Patrick Pearse
8 What does the use of "motley" show in the poem?
The speaker thinks that everything was bright and beautiful

The speaker thinks that everything is confused

The speaker thinks that there is no hope

The speaker thinks everyone was slightly ridiculous
9 The "stone" is a metaphor for what?
The inability to love

God

The heart of the revolutionary

The weapons used during the Easter Rising
10 Which is NOT given as an example of "change" in the poem?
Stone

Stream

Horse

Cloud
11 What does the line “England may keep faith" mean?
England will stop taxing Ireland

England may grant Ireland independence

England will return to Catholicism

England will abandon its colonies throughout the world
12 Death is compared to what in the poem?
Nightmare

Birth

Stone

Sleep
13 Green is a symbol for ____?
Ireland

Nature

Guerrilla war

Change
14 The poem is about events in 1916, but when did Yeats first publish it in a book?
1944

1917

1921

1936
15 Yeats's political views were ____.
Revolutionary

Pro-violence

Conservative

Pro-British
16 Who was Yeats in love with throughout his life?
Maud Gonne

Thomas MacDonagh

Dorothy Shakespear

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

Horrible

Terrible

Beautiful
18 For the speaker, what is the main problem with "too long a sacrifice?"
It is not worth it

It is only for Christ to sacrifice

It can kill you

It can turn the heart into a stone
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 remember them

To make fun of them

To idealize them

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

Eternal life

Constant change

Sacrifice
22 “Our wingèd horse” refers to ______.
Adventure

Life after death

Magic

Poetry
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

Elegaic

Ambivalent

Certain
25 "That is heaven's part" is an allusion to ________.
The Second Coming

Hamlet

The Bible

Paradise Lost

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