Question. May she be granted beauty and yet not/ Beauty to make a stranger’s eye _______
(a) captivated
(b) distracted
(c) distraught
(d) wander

Question. The gleaner walks carefully across
(a) Granary
(b) Half reaped furrow
(c) The winnowing wind
(d) A brook

Question. Where are the ________ of Springs? Ay, where are they?
(a) sounds
(b) signs
(c) songs
(d) sorrows

Question. Which personification of autumn appears in Ode to Autumn?
(a) A gleaner
(b) An old man
(c) A gardener
(d) An apple picker

Question. Who watched the last oozing hours by hours?
(a) Cider- presser
(b) Cider- maker
(c) Cider-brewer
(d) Cider owner

Question. Autumn is the season of mists and
(a) Ripe fruitfulness
(b) Mellow fruitfulness
(c) Soft fruitfulness
(d) Juicy fruitfulness

Question. 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. Autumn is called the bosom friend of the
(a) Blazing sun
(b) Bright sun
(c) Maturing sun
(d) Gigantic sun

Question. Keats enjoys the tranquility and _________ that autumn brings with it.
(a) hopefulness
(b) serenity
(c) calmness
(d) conspiracy

Question. Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find/ Thee sitting careless on a _______ floor
(a) marble
(b) wooden
(c) half-reaped
(d) granary

Question. The reaper felt sleepy with the
(a) fume of daisies
(b) fume of poppies
(c) fume of roses
(d) fume of hyacinths

Question. The loveliest woman born according to Yeats is
(a) His daughter
(b) Lady Gregory
(c) Maud Gonne
(d) Helen of Troy

Question. What was howling outside Yeats’ house?
(a) Wolves
(b) Foxes
(c) Storm
(d) A woman

Question. According to Yeats, what is under the ‘cradle hood and coverlid’?
(a) A baby
(b) A rabbit
(c) Feeding bottle
(d) Milk

Question. 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. Accordingly, Keats’ poems leave the uncertainties and doubts open to the reader’s
(a) Interpretation
(b) Understanding
(c) Imagination
(d) perspective

Question. The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is
(a) Autumn
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) spring

Question. Once more the storm is howling and
(a) half hid
(b) half buried
(c) half revealed
(d) half shown

Question. 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. The small gnats mourn in a wailful choir
(a) Among the river sallows
(b) Among the river bushes
(c) Among the river willows
(d) Among the river plants

Question. 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. For whom is the poet praying in ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’?
(a) The people of Ireland
(b) The queen
(c) Helen
(d) For his baby

Question. In Yeats’ poem, who rose out of the spray?
(a) The great queen
(b) Helen
(c) A serpent
(d) A monster

Question. May she be granted ___________ and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught.
(a) poise
(b) virtue
(c) beauty
(d) fair

Question. May she become a flourishing hidden –
(a) plant
(b) flower
(c) tree
(d) star

Question. The device used by the poet in Ode to Autumn is
(a) Rhymes
(b) Personification
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor

Question. John Keats died of tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of:
(a) 26
(b) 39
(c) 45
(d) 23

Question. Yeats wrote “A Prayer for My Daughter” after the birth of his daughter Anne in:
(a) 1865
(b) 1919
(c) 1939
(d) 1914

Question. 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. The red ___________ whistles from a garden croft
(a) apples
(b) breast
(c) flowers
(d) grapes

Question. Who bleated from the hilly bourn?
(a) Full grown lambs
(b) Full grown sheep
(c) Full grown bees
(d) Full grown crickets

Question. Keats was a poet of
(a) Feelings
(b) Senses
(c) Perceptions
(d) thoughts

Question. William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
(a) 1923
(b) 1927
(c) 1928
(d) 1929

Question. “The Great Queen” that rose out of the spray is
(a) Maud Gonne
(b) Venus
(c) Aphrodite
(d) Yeats’ daughter

Question. Ceremony is a name for
(a) A rich horn
(b) A spreading laurel tree
(c) Innocence and beauty born
(d) Wealth and glory

Question. Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,/ And that its own sweet will is ________ will
(a) God’s
(b) Heaven’s
(c) her
(d) thine

Question. How but in custom and in ceremony/ Are ____________ and beauty born?
(a) innocence
(b) truth
(c) nature
(d) grace

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Question. The season of Autumn fill all fruits with ______ to the core.

Question. In Yeats’ poem, The Great Queen that rose out of the spray is _________

Question. Thee sitting careless on a________ floor.

Question. The poetical device wherein an inanimate object is addressed as if it were a real person is called ____________

Question. Out of the murderous________ of the sea.

Question. An ___________ hatred is the worst, / So let her think opinions are accursed.

Question. Season of mists and ________ fruitfulness,/ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun

Question. It’s certain that fine women eat, A _________ salad with their meat.

Question. While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,/ And touch the stubble plains with _________________

Question. Yeats believes that beautiful women often undo the Horn of ________ by their foolish actions.

Question. That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the ____ of the sea

Question. Fine women eat a crazy salad with their ______________

Question. “To Autumn” is about Keats’ expression of his love for ____________

Question. Helen, being chosen, found life flat and _______

Question. Yeats does not want his daughter to be too __________

Question. “Considering that, all hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical _________”

Question. An intellectual hatred is the worst,/ So let her think ________ are accursed.

Question. And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep steady thy laden head across a _____

Question. Autumn is the season of mists and __________ fruitfulness.

Question. Keats describes the beauty of autumn by __________ it.