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William Butler Yeats
  • 1. In what year was William Butler Yeats born?
A) 1865
B) 1875
C) 1850
D) 1880
  • 2. Which literary movement did Yeats belong to?
A) Modernism
B) Surrealism
C) Irish Literary Revival
D) Romanticism
  • 3. What was the nationality of Yeats?
A) British
B) Irish
C) American
D) Scottish
  • 4. Who was Yeats' muse and lover, inspiring much of his poetry?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
C) Margaret Atwood
D) Maud Gonne
  • 5. Which historical event greatly influenced Yeats' work and led to the poem 'Easter, 1916'?
A) Easter Rising
B) American Civil War
C) Reign of Terror
D) French Revolution
  • 6. Where did W.B. Yeats live in his later years, now a museum dedicated to him?
A) Stratford-upon-Avon
B) Tintern Abbey
C) Glenveagh Castle
D) Thoor Ballylee
  • 7. What is the title of Yeats' last poetry collection, published posthumously?
A) The Waste Land
B) Last Poems and Two Plays
C) Leaves of Grass
D) Collected Poems
  • 8. In which Irish city was Yeats born?
A) Belfast
B) Galway
C) Dublin
D) Limerick
  • 9. Yeats was notable for his involvement in which magical order?
A) Golden Dawn
B) Illuminati
C) Knights Templar
D) Freemasons
  • 10. What is the full name of the collection commonly known as Yeats's first poetry collection?
A) Under the Moon
B) Leaves of Grass
C) The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems
D) In Memory of W.B. Yeats
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