Q:1) Who wrote the poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’
A:) Walt Whitman
B:) W.B. Yeats
C:) Walter Scott
D:) William Faulkner
Correct: B
Q:2) ‘have been writing about the state of soul…. When Irishmen were illuminating the Book of Kells and making jeweled croziers… Byzantium was the centre of European Civilisation…symbolize the search of the spiritual life by a journey to that city’. Who said this quote about Byzantium in a BBC interview in 1931?
A:) T.S. Eliot
B:) W.H. Auden
C:) W.B. Yeats
D:) Ezra Pound
Correct: C
Q:3) Which of the following is not correct in the relation of W.B. Yeats?
A:) The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to him.
B:) He was born in 1865
C:) He was an Irish Poet
D:) He did not receive the Noble Prize
Correct: D
Q:4) The structure of the poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is ________.
A:) Terza rima
B:) ottava rima
C:) quatrain
D:) tercet rima
Correct: B
Q:5) Complete the line of Sailing To Byzantium
‘That is no country for _________.’
A:) old men
B:) spirit
C:) young men
D:) mortality
Correct: A
Q:6) The poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is included in the poem collection ____________, which is published in 1928.
A:) The Tower
B:) Leda and Swan
C:) The Wild Swans at Coole
D:) The Second Coming
Correct: A
Q:7) ‘And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of ____________.’
A:) Constantinople
B:) Istanbul
C:) Byzantium
D:) the place where the spirit could rest
Correct: C
Q:8) Who, the American Writer borrowed the title from ‘Sailing To Byzantium’ for his novel entitled ‘No Country For Old Men’
A:) John Steinbeck
B:) Toni Morrison
C:) Cormac McCarthy
D:) Evelyn Waugh
Correct: C
Q:9) Choose the alliteration from the following lines:
‘Fish, Flesh or fowl, commended all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.’
A:) begotten, born, dies
B:) summer, whatever
C:) commended, begotten
D:) fish, fowl, fowl
Correct: D
Q:10) which is a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence?
A:) Assonance
B:) Caesura
C:) Enjambment
D:) Tautology
Correct: B
Q:11) ‘Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing’ which of the following figure of speech is emphasized in the line?
A:) Metaphor
B:) Enjambment
C:) Personification
D:) Simile
Correct: C
Q:12) What is the rhyme scheme is followed by the author in ‘Sailing to Byzantium’
A:) abababcc
B:) abc abc dd
C:) abababab
D:) abcd abcd
Correct: A
Q:13) Whom did the author describe about a man ‘a tattered coat upon a stick’ in ‘Sailing to Byzantium’
A:) old men
B:) musician
C:) young men
D:) poet himself
Correct: A
Q:14) Who has sailed the seas and come to the holy city in ‘Sailing To Byzantium’
A:) The old man
B:) The poet
C:) Jesus Christ
D:) Grecian goldsmith
Correct: B
Q:15) Complete the line
‘O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the ______ mosaic of wall,’
A:) sand
B:) clay
C:) silver
D:) gold
Correct: D