LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE – MCQs

Given below are  Multiple Choice Questions with Answers on “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B.Yeats:

Q 1. In “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” what does the speaker wish to escape from?
a) The noise and chaos of the city
b) The monotony of rural life
c) The loneliness of the wilderness
d) The pressures of his job
Answer: a) The noise and chaos of the city

Q 2. What is the name of the island in the lake that the speaker longs to go to?
a) Lake Isle
b) Innisfree
c) Island of Tranquility
d) Peaceful Haven
Answer: b) Innisfree

Q 3. What is the speaker’s profession in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
a) Farmer
b) Fisherman
c) Poet
d) Teacher
Answer: c) Poet

Q 4. What is the speaker’s ultimate goal in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
a) To build a cabin and live alone on the island
b) To find true love and companionship on the island
c) To live in harmony with nature on the island
d) To find a quiet place to write his poetry
Answer: c) To live in harmony with nature on the island

Q 5. What does the speaker hear “in the deep heart’s core” in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
a) The sound of the sea
b) The sound of the wind
c) The sound of bees buzzing
d) The sound of silence
Answer: c) The sound of bees buzzing

Q 6. What does the speaker mean when he says “I hear it in the deep heart’s core”?
a) He can hear the sound with his ears
b) He can feel the sound in his chest
c) He can sense the sound with his intuition
d) He can imagine the sound in his mind
Answer: c) He can sense the sound with his intuition

Q 7. What does the speaker wish to build on the island in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
a) A cabin of clay and wattles
b) A stone fortress
c) A wooden dock
d) A brick house
Answer: a) A cabin of clay and wattles

Q 8. What does the speaker want to do with “a hive for the honey-bee” in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
a) Sell the honey for profit
b) Keep the bees as pets
c) Provide a home for the bees
d) Make mead from the honey
Answer: c) Provide a home for the bees

Q 9. In “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” what does the speaker want to do with “a small cabin”?
a) Live in it alone
b) Share it with a loved one
c) Rent it out to tourists
d) Use it as a writing studio
Answer: a) Live in it alone

Q 10. What does the speaker want to do with the “nine bean-rows” in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
a) Sell the beans at the market
b) Plant more beans
c) Feed the bees
d) Eat the beans himself
Answer: b) Plant more beans

Q 11. What is the speaker’s attitude towards the modern world in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
a) He is optimistic about its possibilities
b) He is pessimistic about its future
c) He is ambivalent about its impact
d) He rejects it and longs for a simpler life
Answer: d) He rejects it and longs for a simpler life

Q 12. When was William Butler Yeats born?
a) 1855
b) 1865
c) 1875
d) 1885
Answer: b) 1865

Q 13. Where was Yeats born?
a) London, England
b) Dublin, Ireland
c) Edinburgh, Scotland
d) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Answer: b) Dublin, Ireland

Q 14. What literary and cultural movement was Yeats heavily involved in?
a) The Enlightenment
b) The Romantic movement
c) The Beat Generation
d) The Irish literary and cultural revival
Answer: d) The Irish literary and cultural revival

Q 15. What was the name of the theater that Yeats helped found in Dublin?
a) The Abbey Theatre
b) The Globe Theatre
c) The Royal Shakespeare Company
d) The National Theatre
Answer: a) The Abbey Theatre

Q 16. What was Yeats’ political affiliation?
a) Socialist
b) Conservative
c) Nationalist
d) Liberal
Answer: c) Nationalist

Q 17. In what year did Yeats receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
a) 1901
b) 1913
c) 1923
d) 1933
Answer: c) 1923

Q 18. What is the title of Yeats’ famous poem about the Easter Rising in Dublin?
a) “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
b) “Sailing to Byzantium”
c) “The Second Coming”
d) “Easter, 1916”
Answer: d) “Easter, 1916”

Q 19. Which of Yeats’ plays features Cathleen ni Houlihan, interpreted as a symbol of Irish nationalism?
a) “The Countess Cathleen”
b) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
c) “At the Hawk’s Well”
d) “The Tower”
Answer: a) “The Countess Cathleen”

Q 20. What is the name of the book of Yeats’ collected poems that was published in 1899?
a) “The Wanderings of Oisin”
b) “The Tower”
c) “The Wind Among the Reeds”
d) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
Answer: c) “The Wind Among the Reeds”

Q 21. Which of Yeats’ poems features the famous line “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”?
a) “The Second Coming”
b) “Sailing to Byzantium”
c) “Easter, 1916”
d) “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
Answer: a) “The Second Coming”

Q 22. What is the name of the collection of Yeats’ poems that was published posthumously in 1939?
a) “The Tower”
b) “Last Poems”
c) “The Collected Poems”
d) “Selected Poems”
Answer: b) “Last Poems”

Q 23. Which of Yeats’ poems is a tribute to the Irish poet and revolutionary Thomas MacDonagh, who was executed for his role in the Easter Rising?
a) “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
b) “September 1913”
c) “Easter, 1916”
d) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
Answer: c) “Easter, 1916”

Q 24. Which of Yeats’ poems is a meditation on mortality and the transience of life?
a) “The Second Coming”
b) “Sailing to Byzantium”
c) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
d) “When You Are Old”
Answer: b) “Sailing to Byzantium”

Q 25. Who was William Butler Yeats’ first love?
a) Maud Gonne
b) Olivia Shakespeare
c) Lady Augusta Gregory
d) Annie Horniman
Answer: a) Maud Gonne

Q 26. What was the name of Yeats’ wife?
a) Maud Gonne
b) Lady Augusta
c) Georgie Hyde-Lees
d) Olivia Shakespeare
Answer: c) Georgie Hyde-Lees

Q 27. What was the profession of Yeats’ wife?
a) Actress
b) Writer
c) Artist
d) Spiritualist
Answer: d) Spiritualist

Q 28. How many children did Yeats have with his wife?
a) None
b) One
c) Two
d) Three
Answer: b) One

Q 29. What was the name of the child Yeats had with his wife?
a) Anne Yeats
b) William Michael Yeats
c) Michael Yeats
d) Sean Yeats
Answer: a) Anne Yeats

Q 30. Who was Yeats’ wife’s collaborator in automatic writing and experiments with the supernatural?
a) Maud Gonne
b) Lady Augusta Gregory
c) W. B. Yeats
d) Aleister Crowley
Answer: c) W. B. Yeats

Q 31. What significant role did Yeats’ wife play in his life and work?
a) She inspired many of his poems and influenced his mystical beliefs.
b) She managed his literary affairs and published his works.
c) She served as his editor and critic.
d) She financed his literary endeavors.
Answer: a) She inspired many of his poems and influenced his mystical beliefs.

Q 32. How did Yeats meet his wife?
a) Through literary circles in London
b) Through her father’s connections
c) Through mutual friends in Dublin
d) Through their shared interest in the occult
Answer: d) Through their shared interest in the occult

Q 33. What was Yeats’ wife’s full name before marriage?
a) Georgie Hyde-Lees
b) Mary Josephine Lees
c) Georgina Augusta Lees
d) Dorothy Elizabeth Hyde
Answer: a) Georgie Hyde-Lees

Q 34. In what year did Yeats marry his wife?
a) 1900
b) 1910
c) 1920
d) 1930
Answer: a) 1900

Q 35. When did William Butler Yeats die?
a) 1939
b) 1949
c) 1959
d) 1969
Answer: a) 1939

Q 36. In which city did Yeats die?
a) Dublin
b) London
c) Paris
d) New York
Answer: c) Paris

Q 37. What was the cause of Yeats’ death?
a) Pneumonia
b) Heart attack
c) Stroke
d) Cancer
Answer: a) Pneumonia

Q 38. How old was Yeats when he died?
a) 65
b) 70
c) 75
d) 80
Answer: a) 65

Q 39. Where is Yeats buried?
a) Dublin, Ireland
b) London, England
c) Paris, France
d) Sligo, Ireland
Answer: d) Sligo, Ireland

Q 40. Who was with Yeats when he died?
a) His wife
b) His son
c) His daughter
d) His literary agent
Answer: a) His wife

Q 41. What significant event coincided with Yeats’ death?
a) The outbreak of World War II
b) The fall of the Berlin Wall
c) The publication of his final poetry collection
d) The beginning of the Great Depression
Answer: a) The outbreak of World War II

Q 42. Which of Yeats’ works was published posthumously after his death?
a) “The Tower”
b) “The Winding Stair and Other Poems”
c) “Last Poems”
d) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
Answer: c) “Last Poems”

Q 43. How many years after Yeats’ death was he awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
a) 1 year
b) 5 years
c) 10 years
d) 20 years
Answer: b) 5 years

Q 44. What was Yeats’ age when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
a) 65
b) 70
c) 75
d) 80
Answer: b) 70

Q45. In which city did William Butler Yeats attend school?
a) Dublin
b) London
c) Sligo
d) Belfast
Answer: a) Dublin

Q 46. At which school did Yeats receive his early education?
a) St. Columba’s College
b) Eton College
c) Trinity College Dublin
d) St. Xavier’s School
Answer: a) St. Columba’s College

Q 47. Which secondary school did Yeats attend in Dublin?
a) St. Columba’s College
b) St. Xavier’s School
c) Royal High School
d) St. Patrick’s High School
Answer: a) St. Columba’s College

Q 48. Where did Yeats receive his formal education in literature and poetry?
a) University of Dublin
b) University of Oxford
c) University of London
d) University College Dublin
Answer: d) University College Dublin

Q 49. What college did Yeats attend but later left without completing his degree?
a) Trinity College Dublin
b) University College London
c) University College Dublin
d) University of Oxford
Answer: c) University College Dublin

Q 50. Which literary figure influenced Yeats during his time at University College Dublin?
a) John Keats
b) Percy Bysshe Shelley
c) William Wordsworth
d) William Shakespeare
Answer: b) Percy Bysshe Shelley

Q 51. In which year did Yeats leave University College Dublin?
a) 1886
b) 1896
c) 1906
d) 1916
Answer: a) 1886

Q 52. What was the primary focus of Yeats’ studies during his time at University College Dublin?
a) Literature
b) Science
c) Law
d) Medicine
Answer: c) Law

Q 53. Which literary society did Yeats co-found while studying at University College Dublin?
a) The Irish Literary Society
b) The Literary and Debating Society
c) The Dublin Literary Society
d) The Gaelic Literary Society
Answer: b) The Literary and Debating Society

Q 54. Name of the professor who influenced Yeats’ interest in literature and poetry at University College Dublin?
a) Professor Patrick Pearse
b) Professor George Sigerson
c) Professor Edward Dowden
d) Professor Douglas Hyde
Answer: c) Professor Edward Dowden

Q 55, Which literary and cultural movement were Yeats and George Russell (A.E.) both associated with?
a) The Romantic movement
b) The Irish literary revival
c) The Beat Generation
d) The Harlem Renaissance
Answer: b) The Irish literary revival