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    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He co-founded the Rhymers' Club and joined the Theosophical Society. In 1899, Maud Gonne refused to marry him. She played the title role in the first performance of his play Cathleen ni Houlihan in Dublin. Yeats published The Wild Swans at Coole in 1917 and served as a member of the Irish Senate for six years before dying in Roquebrune, France in 1939.

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    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He co-founded the Rhymers' Club and joined the Theosophical Society. In 1899, Maud Gonne refused to marry him. She played the title role in the first performance of his play Cathleen ni Houlihan in Dublin. Yeats published The Wild Swans at Coole in 1917 and served as a member of the Irish Senate for six years before dying in Roquebrune, France in 1939.

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    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He co-founded the Rhymers' Club and joined the Theosophical Society. In 1899, Maud Gonne refused to marry him. She played the title role in the first performance of his play Cathleen ni Houlihan in Dublin. Yeats published The Wild Swans at Coole in 1917 and served as a member of the Irish Senate for six years before dying in Roquebrune, France in 1939.

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    1.

    When did William Butler Yeats get Nobel Prize for Literature?

      1923

      1942

      1935

      1938

    2. Which club did William Butler Yeats cofound?

      Country Club

      Lions’ Club

      Rhymers’ Club

      Rotary Club

    3. Which society did William Butler Yeats join?

      Theosophical Society

      Society of Jesus

      Society of Friends

      Royal Society

    4. Who refused to marry William Butler Yeats in 1899?

      Augusta Persse

      Maud Gonne
      Iseult Gonne

      Matilda Joslyn

    5. In which play Maud Gonne played the title role when it was first performed in
    Dublin?

      On Baile’s Strand

      The Land of Heart’s Desire

      The King’s Threshold

      Cathleen ni Houlihan

    6. Which play of William Butler Yeats was first performed in 1916?

      Four Plays for Dancers

      At the Hawk’s Well

      Deirdre

      The Hour Glass

    7. When did William Butler Yeats publish The Wild Swans at Coole?

      1914

      1924

      1917

      1912
    8. For how many years was William Butler Yeats member of the Irish Senate?

      Three

      Six

      Four

      Eight

    9. When did William Butler Yeats die?

      28 January 1939

      10 June 1938

      6 July 1942

      12 November 1935

    10. Where did William Butler Yeats die?

      Dublin

      Paris

      Roquebrune

      Sligo

    11. On the marble table-top.” This line is taken from which of the following
    poem of Yeats?
     (A) Byzantium
     (B) Blood and the Moon
     (C) Coole Park
     (D) Vacillation
     Question’s Answer: Vacillation

    12. The symbols used by W.B. Yeats are difficult to understand because:
     (A)They are too intricate
     (B) They are derived from Scottish legends
     (C) They are derived from obscure Irish mythology
     (D) They are derived from unfamous sources
     Question’s Answer: They are derived from obscure Irish mythology

    13. W.B. Yeats was a ______ .


     (A) Anglo-Scotch poet
     (B) Anglo-Indian poet
     (C) Anglo-Roman poet
     (D) Anglo-Irish poet
     Question’s Answer: Anglo-Irish poet

    14. What is Yeats’s The Land of Heart’s Desire?


     (A) A drama in One Act
     (B) A drama in three Acts
     (C) A long narrative poem
     (D) A prose treatise
     Question’s Answer: A drama in One Act

    15. What is Yeats’s Ideas of Good and Evil?


     (A) A Collection of Lyrics
     (B) A Collection of essays
     (C) A Collection of tales
     (D) A Collection of Odes
     Question’s Answer: A Collection of essays

    16. Which is a poem not created and written by  Yeats?


     (A) The Statues
     (B) A Bronze Head
     (C) The Untilled Field
     (D) Vacillation
     Question’s Answer: The Untilled Field

    17. Countess Cathleen is a drama written by Yeats. In what linguistic form is


    it written?
     (A) In Rhyming Verse
     (B) In prose
     (C) In prose-poetry
     (D) In Free Verse
     Question’s Answer: In prose

    18. Is Yeats primarily a-


     (A) Satirist
     (B) Imagist
     (C) Symbolist
     (D) Idealist
     Question’s Answer: Symbolist

    19. Yeats’s poem When You Are Old is addressed to:


     (A) His wife
     (B) His sister
     (C) Robert Bridges
     (D) His beloved Maud Gonne
     Question’s Answer: His beloved Maud Gonne

    20. What is the idea/theme  of Sailing to Byzantium?


     (A) Mortality of man
     (C) A Utopian vision
     (B) Land of ideal vision
     (D) Eternity of life
     Question’s Answer: Eternity of life
    21. What is Yeats’s Reveries Over Childhood and Youth?
     (A) An autobiographical treatise
     (B) A satirical treatise
     (C) A reflective treatise
     (D) A prose-work
     Question’s Answer: An autobiographical treatise

    22. Which is a poem written by Yeats?


     (A) Esther Waters
     (B) The Day’s Work
     (C) Palicio
     (D) The Second Coming
     Question’s Answer: The Second Coming

    23. W.B. Yeats has written a poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Where is
    Innisfree situated?
     (A) It is only an imaginary Island
     (B) It is situated near the eastern coast of England
     (C) It is situated in Lough Gill
     (D) It is situated near the western coast of England
    Question’s Answer: It is situated in Lough Gill

    24. Yeats’s poem Coole Park is related with the poet’s association with which
    of the following?
     (A) The poet’s old-age memories
     (B) Irish social life
     (C) Lady Gregory
     (D) The poet’s zest for life
    Question’s Answer: Lady Gregory

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