William Butler Yeats

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1. Which European city was William Butler Yeats born in? London Dublin Edinburgh Glascow

2. Which poem begins 'Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuthwood in the lake'? The Stolen Child The Lake Isle of Innisfree The Second Coming Ephemera

3. What is the name of the theater founded by Yeats and Lady Gregory in Dublin, 1904? Answer: (Three Words (beginning with 'the'))

4. What year did Yeats win the Nobel prize for literature? 1921 1923 1925 1918

5. From which poem does the novel 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe, get its title? Answer: (Three Words)

6. What is the name of the legendary Irish giant featured in several Yeats poems and plays? Anashuya Fergus Cuchulain Aengus

7. What is the name of Cuchulain's wife? Vijaya Ephemera Aoife Moll

8. Who is the Irish god frequently associated with love and lovers in Irish mythology? Answer: (One Word)

9. The last stanza of which poem written by Yeats describes his gravesite? Answer: (Three Words)

10. Name the church yard were Yeats was interred a second and final time. Drumcliff Sistine Sligo St. Mary's