Deck 3: Poems: Part A

Question 1

The reaper felt sleepy with the

A)fume of daisies
B)fume of poppies
C)fume of roses
D)fume of hyacinths

Answer 1

fume of poppies

Question 2

"The Great Queen" that rose out of the spray is

A)Maud Gonne
B)Venus
C)Aphrodite
D)Yeats' daughter

Answer 2

Aphrodite

Question 3

Ceremony is a name for

A)A rich horn
B)A spreading laurel tree
C)Innocence and beauty born
D)Wealth and glory

Answer 3

A rich horn

Question 4

The loveliest woman born according to Yeats is

A)His daughter
B)Lady Gregory
C)Maud Gonne
D)Helen of Troy

Question 5

A Prayer for My Daughter is marked by a strong personal note relating to

A)Maud Gonne
B)Anna Yeats
C)Aphrodite
D)Helen of Troy

Question 6

The poem "A Prayer for My Daughter" was written after the birth of Yeats' daughter. His daughter's name is

A)Anne
B)Lily
C)Elizabeth
D)Amy

Question 7

Accordingly, Keats' poems leave the uncertainties and doubts open to the reader's

A)Interpretation
B)Understanding
C)Imagination
D)perspective

Question 8

The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is

A)Autumn
B)Winter
C)Summer
D)spring

Question 9

Once more the storm is howling and

A)half hid
B)half buried
C)half revealed
D)half shown

Question 10

Keats was a poet of

A)Feelings
B)Senses
C)Perceptions
D)thoughts

Question 11

William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in

A)1923
B)1927
C)1928
D)1929

Question 12

What are the two 'close bosom-friends' mentioned in Ode to Autumn?

A)The bees and the flowers
B)The sun and the autumn season
C)The autumn season and the bees
D)The trees and the sun

Question 13

Where are the ________ of Springs? Ay, where are they?

A)sounds
B)signs
C)songs
D)sorrows

Question 14

Which personification of autumn appears in Ode to Autumn?

A)A gleaner
B)An old man
C)A gardener
D)An apple picker

Question 15

W.B. Yeats' A Prayer for my Daughter was written in __________, shortly after Yeats daughter, Anne's birth.

A)1918
B)1919
C)1920
D)1922

Question 16

May she be granted ___________ and yet not Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught.

A)poise
B)virtue
C)beauty
D)fair

Question 17

May she become a flourishing hidden -

A)plant
B)flower
C)tree
D)star

Question 18

The device used by the poet in Ode to Autumn is

A)Rhymes
B)Personification
C)Simile
D)Metaphor

Question 19

The reaper in Ode to Autumn falls asleep because he

A)Is tired of reaping
B)Is drowsed with the fume of poppies
C)Wants to rest
D)Wants to relax

Question 20

The red ___________ whistles from a garden croft

A)apples
B)breast
C)flowers
D)grapes

Question 21

The gleaner walks carefully across

A)Granary
B)Half reaped furrow
C)The winnowing wind
D)A brook

Question 22

Who watched the last oozing hours by hours?

A)Cider- presser
B)Cider- maker
C)Cider-brewer
D)Cider owner

Question 23

Who bleated from the hilly bourn?

A)Full grown lambs
B)Full grown sheep
C)Full grown bees
D)Full grown crickets

Question 24

What was howling outside Yeats' house?

A)Wolves
B)Foxes
C)Storm
D)A woman

Question 25

According to Yeats, what is under the 'cradle hood and coverlid'?

A)A baby
B)A rabbit
C)Feeding bottle
D)Milk