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