Deck 1: Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940: Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot

Question 1

To whom did Hopkins dedicate 'The Windhover'?

A)mary
B)peter
C)moses
D)christ

Answer 1

christ

Question 2

Hopkins read classics at which of these universities?

A)oxford
B)cambridge
C)dublin
D)leeds

Answer 2

oxford

Question 3

What event inspired Hopkins to return to writing poetry in 1875?

A)famine
B)earthquake
C)shipwreck
D)war

Answer 3

shipwreck

Question 4

Hopkins coined which of these terms to describe the individual uniqueness of each creation?

A)inscape
B)instress
C)signifier
D)sprung rhythm

Question 5

Which language that Hopkins learned at St Beuno's seminary greatly influenced his poetry?

A)welsh
B)gaelic
C)erse
D)cornish

Question 6

"Kingdom of day lights dauphin dapple dawn drawn falcon" Identify the figure of speech used.

A)simile
B)metaphor
C)assonance
D)alliteration

Question 7

What shine "blue beak"?

A)sky
B)feathers
C)embers
D)eyes

Question 8

Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems in 1918?

A)robert bridges
B)stephen spender
C)richard dixon
D)coventry patmore

Question 9

Which order did Gerard Manley Hopkins join?

A)carmelite
B)jesuit
C)franciscan
D)benedictine

Question 10

Identify the term that is not used by Hopkins to describe the Windhover?

A)minion,
B)dauphin
C)falcon
D)beast

Question 11

The title of Yeats' 'The Second Coming' is a reference to what event?

A)the return of jesus christ
B)world war i
C)world war ii
D)the modernism era

Question 12

Where is Byzantium located?

A)ireland
B)scotland
C)turkey
D)italy

Question 13

Name the ninth century Byzantine Emperor referred to in the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium

A)theodore
B)tiresias
C)theophilus
D)trescothick

Question 14

What does gyre mean?

A)spirit
B)spiral
C)sphinx
D)stone image

Question 15

In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'?

A)collective meaning of broken images
B)collective unconscious that all human beings share
C)collective myths that society believe
D)collective memory of trauma

Question 16

What does "the centre cannot hold" mean?

A)jesus christ cannot save us
B)summer cannot last forever
C)the world's core values and meanings are falling apart
D)the heart cannot sustain the mind

Question 17

Which month is the "cruellest"?

A)september
B)april
C)may
D)december

Question 18

"By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..."

A)the seine
B)the nile
C)the thames
D)leman

Question 19

Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?

A)timbuktu
B)marseilles
C)novgorod
D)vienna

Question 20

Magnus Martyr is a:

A)ocean
B)church
C)epic poem
D)football stadium

Question 21

The narrator is told that he should fear death by:

A)fire
B)water
C)starvation
D)disease

Question 22

"When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:

A)spanish tragedy
B)ovid's metamorphoses
C)hamlet
D)oliver goldsmith's the vicar of wakefield

Question 23

Who rapes Philomela?

A)tereus
B)odysseus
C)the typist
D)zeus

Question 24

Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer"

A)"the ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon"
B)"a kiss is just a kiss"
C)"isolde is lost forever"
D)"desolate and empty is the sea"

Question 25

In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)?

A)new york
B)london
C)boston
D)gloucester