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