Objective Type Questions

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative.

1. What is the date of birth of William Butler Yeats?
(a) April 25, 1867
(b) May 5, 1870
(c) June 13, 1865
(d) March 10, 1875

2. Yeats' parents were
(a) Protestants
(b) Catholics
(c) Jews
(d) None of these

3. The Irish Literary Theatre Society was founded by .........
(a) S.T. Coleridge
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) Larkin
(d) Auden

4. Yeats fell in love with -
(a) Anne
(b) Elizabeth
(c) Maud Gonne
(d) None of these

5. Which Indian writing touched Yeats?
(a) The Gitanjali
(b) The Ramayan
(c) The Gita
(d) None of these

6. Who helped Yeats in translating the ten principles of upanishads into English?
(a) Tagore
(b) Toru Dutt
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Sri Hamsa

7. In which year, did Yeats win the Nobel Prize for literature.
(a) 1920
(b) 1923
(c) 1925
(d) 1930

8. Yeats died in France in.
(a) 1935
(b) 1937
(c) 1939
(d) 1941

9. Which is the play of Yeats?
(a) The Countess Cathleen
(b) Arms and the Man
(c) Macbeth
(d) Justice

10. Which is not the play of Yeats?
(a) The Winding Stair
(b) The Tower
(c) The Silver Box
(d) Responsibilities

11. Yeats was regarded as the cheif exponent of the ....... movement in England.
(a) reformation
(b) symbolist
(c) Victorian
(d) None of these

12. "The Second Coming' reflects Yeats's most .......... ideas.
(a) emotional
(b) pessimistic
(c) esoteric
(d) revolutionary

13. The theme of "The Second Coming' is the prophecy of the ...........
(a) new civilization
(b) revolution
(c) reformation
(d) None of these

14. The sphinx symbolises the ...... sun-god. 
(a) Indian
(b) American
(c) African
(d) Egyptian

15. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree' records of
(a) humanism
(b) escapism
(c) materialism
(d) None of these

16. The poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree' the poet's deep-rooted desire for lovely island ......
(a) Ireland
(b) England
(d) Australia
(c) Innisfree

17. The poet is standing on a ........ in London.
(a) roadway
(b) railway
(c) airway
(d) None of these

18. The poet wishes to build the a ........
(a) shop
(b) road
(c) small cabin
(d) factory

19. The poet will hear the songs of .......
(a) singer
(b) cricket
(c) pop-singer
(d) classical-singer

20. Whose song will he hear in the evening?
(a) Linnets
(b) Cricket
(c) Nightingales
(d) None of these

21. Where did Yeats shift later on?
(a) New York
(b) Sydney
(c) Dublin
(d) None of these

22. How many years did Yeats study art?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four

23. Yeats played a vital role in the politics and literature of...
(a) Finland
(b) Denmark
(c) Venice
(d) Ireland

24. Who Collaborated Yeats in founding the Irish Literary Theatre Society with?
(a) Ldy Lizarus
(b) Lady Gregary
(c) Lady Macbeth
(d) Lady Macduff

25. What did the Irish Literary Theatre Society make the most important figure?
(a) The Irish Literary Renaissance
(b) The American Literary Renaissance
(c) The Indian Literary Renaissance
(d) None of these

26. What was Maud Gonne?
(a) American
(b) African
(c) Irish
(d) Indian

27. Who was associated with a violent section of the Irish revolutionaries?
(a) Lady Gregary
(b) Maud Gonne
(c) Geargle Hyde Lees
(d) None of these

28. In Which year did Yeats and Geargle Hyde Lees get married?
(a) 1914
(b) 1915
(c) 1916
(d) 1917

29. For which country did Yeats develop love?
(a) India
(b) America
(c) Australia
(d) Africa

30. Which book touched Yeats so deeply?
(a) The Bible
(b) The Gitanjali
(c) The Prelude
(d) All of these

31. Whom did Yeats help to revise many of the lyrics?
(a) Tagore
(b) Milton
(c) Tennyson
(d) All of these

32. In which year was Yeats made a member of the Irish Free State?
(a) 1920
(b) 1921
(c) 1922
(d) 1923

33. "Romantic Ireland is dead and gone." Who said this?
(a) Yeats
(b) Keats
(c) Auden
(d) Duke

34. In which tradition did Yeats begin his career?
(a) Victorian
(b) Romantic
(c) Ancient
(d) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

35. Which phase of the poetry of Yeats was marked by his stream return to his passionate life?
(a) First
(b) Last
(c) Middle
(d) None of these

36. Which are the plays of Yeats?
(a) The Countess Cathleen
(b) The Land of Heart's Desire
(c) The Winding Stair
(d) Only 'a' and 'b'

37: In which year was the play "The Countess Cathleen' published?
(a) 1891
(b) 1892
(c) 1893
(d) 1894

38. When was "The Land of Heart's Desire' published?
(a) 1896
(b) 1897
(c) 1898
(d) 1899

39. When was "The Lake Isle of Innisfree' published?
(a) 1895
(b) 1896
(d) 1898
(c) 1897

40. In his early works Keats's 'symbolism' was quite simple ....... and elementary.
(a) conventional
(b) traditional
(c) emotional
(d) None of these

41. What does "The Lake Isle of Innisfree' symbolise?
(a) Palace
(b) Home
(c) School
(d) Utopia

42. What are fully and firmly grounded in Irish mythology and legend?
(a) Keats's symbolism
(b) Keats's theme
(c) Keats's story
(d) None of these

43. Keats's symbols are not ........
(a) clear
(b) vague
(c) out of sense
(d) All of these

44. As Keats's art grew to maturity, his symbols became more and more ........ and.....
(a) simple, personal
(b) vague, graceful
(c) complex, personal
(d) None of these

45. Which helped Keats to express the richness of man's deeper reality?
(a) Nature
(b) Imagery
(c) Thoughts
(d) Symbolism

46. Yeats was a ......... from the beginning to the end of his career.
(a) sonneteer
(b) symbolist
(c) lyricist
(d) None of these

47. Who was regarded as the chief exponent of the symbolist movement in England?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Milton
(c) Yeats
(d) Chaucer

48. Which phase do The Swan, The Tower, The Winding Stair, The Gyres etc., symbols belongs to?
(a) Later
(b) Middle
(c) Earlier
(d) None of these

49. Yeats's poetry is rich in ........
(a) intellect
(b) emotion
(c) sentiment
(d) images

50. The Second Coming' reflect Yeats' most .........ideas.
(a) constructive
(b) destructive
(c) esoteric
(d) None of these

51. Which poem of Yeats is an attempt at harmonising concrete images with dream like images.
(a) The Lake Isle of Innisfree
(b) The Tower
(c) The Second Coming
(d) None of these

52. Who inspires Yeats to think about an ideal island in the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree'?
(a) Lucy
(b) A friend
(c) A Picture
(d) A fountain

53. What picture does the poem "The Second Coming' show about Ireland?
(a) World War
(b) Civilization
(c) Civil War
(d) None of these

54. The poem 'The Second Coming' conveys the terror of coming .......... civilization.
(a) antithetical
(b) ancient
(c) modern
(d) All of these

55. In the poem The Second Coming', the image gradually draws towards ........
(a) Egypt
(b) Africa
(c) England
(d) Bethlehem

56. In the poem 'The Second Coming', the image gradually draws towards Bethehem which is the holy place of ...... worship. 
(a) Muslim
(b) Jew
(c) Hindu
(d) Christian

57. Why does the image gradually draw towards Bethlehem in the poem "The Second Coming?
(a) To fight
(b) To be born
(c) To get money
(d) None of these

58. From where does the image come out of in the poem The second coming?
(a) Spiritusmundi
(b) Bethlehem
(c) Jerusalam
(d) None of these

59. How does the image look?
(a) Human
(b) Beast
(c) Half human and half beast
(d) None of these

60. Bethlehem is the birth place of
(a) Lord Rama
(b) Christ
(c) Lord Ayyappa
(d) All of these

61. What type of look has the image?
(a) Emotional
(b) Lovable
(c) Cute
(d) Blank

62. The birth of the image is the ...... of present civilization.
(a) Birth
(b) Re-birth
(c) Death
(d) None of these

63. According to Yeats Modern civilization is full of.........
(a) Violence
(b) Love
(c) Honesty
(d) Care

64. What is required to end the present violent civilization?
(a) An honest leader
(b) A violent God
(c) A brave warrior
(d) A true priest

65. What is the sound of the rocking of the craddle is indicating in the poem "The Second Coming'?
(a) The birth of a baby
(b) Meeting of lovers
(c) The birth of new God
(d) None of these

66. The theme of the poem "The Second Coming' is the ........ of the new civilization.
(a) change
(b) prophecy
(c) transformation
(d) All of these

67. The birds fly when they see .......
(a) The monstrous shape
(b) The hunter
(c) The Lion
(d) The Fox

68. In the poem The Second Coming', the gyre symbolizes the cycle of .........
(a) Geography
(b) Science
(c) History
(d) None of these

69. In the poem, the Falcon means man's .......
(a) emotion
(b) intellect
(c) sentiment
(d) feeling

70. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree' is .......
(a) sonnet
(b) ode
(c) ballad
(d) lyric

71. What was Yeats's first proper Irish poem according to the critics?
(a) The Lake Isle of Innisfree
(b) The Second Coming
(c) The Tower
(d) None of these

72. In which category does "The Lake Isle of Innisfree' belong to?
(a) Love-poem
(b) Dream-poem
(c) Revenge-poem
(d) None of these

73. What inspires Yeats to think about an ideal island?
(a) A friend
(b) A picture
(c) A palace
(d) A fountain

74. Robert Bridges' poetry is:
(a) Satirical
(b) Lyrical
(c) Realistic
(d) Farcial

75. "I hear lake water lappong with low
sound by the shore;"
The line occure in which stanza of the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?
(a) First
(c) Third
(b) Second
(d) None of these

76. Who wrote "Byzantium"?
(a) John Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) W. B. Yeats
(d) S.T. Coleridge

77. W.B. yeats' poetry is remarkable for the use of:
(a) Myth and folklore
(b) Nature and mankind
(c) Green traditions
(d) Criticism of life

78. In the poem of W.B. Yeats, "Innisfree' is :
(a) an island
(b) a sea
(c) a lake
(d) a pond

79. What sort of a house will Yeats build at Innisfree in the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?
(a) A brick house
(b) A wood house
(c) A sand house
(d) Clay and wood house

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