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