A Prayer For My Daughter – William Butter Yeats
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER OUT OF THE GIVEN OPTIONS.
1. Helen was responsible for the destruction of Troy.
a. London b. Ireland c. Troy
2. ‘Helen had much trouble form a fool’. The fool referred to here is Paris.
a. W.B.Yeats b. Paris c. Hephaestus
3. W.B.Yeats wants his daughter to be like a linnet.
a. a swan b. a star c. a linnet
4. W.B.Yeats wants his daughter to grow ‘in one dear place’ like a green laurel.
a. a green laurel b. a linnet c. an elm
5. by removing hatred from the mind, we can recover radical innocence.
a. radical ignorance b. revolutionary fervour c. radical innovence
6. Yeats is an Irish poet.
a. an Irish poet b. an American poet c. an Indian poet
7. Yeats prays that his daoughter should be gifted with knowledge.
a. beauty c. riches c. knowledge
8. Maud Gonne married Mac Bride.
a. Yeats b. Mac Bride c.Wisdom
9. Courtesy is an aristocratic virtue which Yeats valued very highly.
a. Proud b. Cruel C. Courtesy
10. What is the tree mentioned by Yeats in this poems? Laurel
a. oak b. birch c. laurel
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