Mock test set 1 from The Wild Swans at Coole.

The Wild Swans at Coole

William Butler Yeats

1. The predominant note of the poem is

a] cheerful

b] elegiac

c] meditative

d] celebratory

2. The poem was written in

[a] Spring 1916

[b] Winter 1915

[c] Autumn 1916

[d] Summer 1917

3. When the poet first visited Coole Park, he was aged

[a] 33

[b] 32

[c] 31

[d] 51

4. Yeats visited Coole first time in

[a] 1916

[b] 1897

[c] 1896

[d] 1890

5. During his second visit to Coole, Yeats was aged

[a] 50

[b] 52

[c] 51

[d] 59

6. The gap between Yeats' two visits of Coole was

[a] 20 years

[b] 9 years

[c] 19 years

[d] 10 years

7. Apart from natural association Autumn also signifies

[a] psychic atrophy

[b] aging

[c] loss of imagination

[d] all of these

8. Which of the following month is pictured in his poem?

[a] September

[b] October

[c] July

[d] May

9. At Coole, Yeats received hospitality from

a) Robert Gregory 

b) John Macbride

c) Iscult Gonne

d) Lady Gregory

10. Why are the woodland paths called 'dry'?

[i] the monsoon is over

[ii] rains and mists are yet to come

[iii] it was early autumn

[iv] it was late autumn

[a] (i) and (ii)

[b] (ii) and (iii)

[c] (ii) and (iv)

[d] (iii) and (iv)

11) The time mentioned in the poem is 

a) dawn 

b) early morning 

c) twilight

d) evening

12. The word 'twilight' appears as predominant

symbol in which of the following poems?

[a] Two in the Campagna

[b] Crossing the Bar

[c] Come into the Garden Maud

[d] The Tower

13. The number of swans are

[a] 58

[b] 51

[c] 59

[d] 52

14. The number 'nine-and-fifty' symbolizes

[a] the number of lovers the poet had

[b] the age of the poet when he first visited

Coole

[c] the age of the poet when he had his second

visit at Coole

[d] persons killed in the genocide of 1916

15. The dominant mode of the poem is one of

[a] jubilation

[c] innocence

[b] jocundity

[d] melancholy

16. This poem has its near kindred in

[a] Keats' 'Melancholy Ode'

[b] Vaughan's 'the Retreat'

[c] Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'

[d] Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode'

17. The central theme of the poem is

[a] management of stress in late youth

[b] loss cum recompense

[c] Irish Independence movement

[d] meditation on his lost love for Maud

18. Yeats may be called

[a] pre-Romantic

(b) pro-Romantic

[C] neo-Romantic

[d] belated-Romantic

19. The 'streams' of the cold lake symbolizes

[a] life of flux

[b] eternity

[c] ephemerality

[d] the great currents of time

c20. "Since I first made my count"-When did Yeats make his count first?

(a) in 1896

[b] in 1915

[c] in 1897

[d] in 1917

Answer Key:- 1) b 2) c 3) b 4) b 5) b 6) c 7) d) 8) b 9) d 10) d 11) c 12) b 13) c 14) c 15) d 16) d 17) b 18) c 19) d 20) c