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