13. In Yeats\' \"The Second Coming,\" the rough beast is probably the AntiChrist

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13. In Yeats' "The Second Coming," the rough beast is probably

the AntiChrist

an Egyptian god

The personified terrors of WWI

Major John McBride

QUESTION 14

Name and describe one major difference between the men's college and the women's college in Woolf's "A Room of One's Own."

QUESTION 15

What is the nature of the disagreement between Ms. Ivors and Gabriel in Joyce's "The Dead"?

QUESTION 16

One of the styles of art that expressed the ideas of Modernism is

Cubism

Impressionism

Pop Art

Realism

QUESTION 17

In "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf blames the mothers and grandmothers for what?

teaching their daughters to desire education above marriage and motherhood

never learning to read and write

washing a red sock with the white laundry

Not getting out and raising money for Fernham (the joke is that they couldn't! they were women!)

QUESTION 18

Which is NOT a difference between "Oxbridge" and "Fernham" in Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own"?

The lunch at Oxbridge is much more elaborate than the one at Fernham

QUESTION 19

Who is the "drunken, vainglorious lout" of Yeats' "Easter 1916"?

Major John MacBride

Patrick Pearse

John Connolly

King George V

QUESTION 20

Why did W.B. Yeats eventually dislike reading his poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?

He thought he was too immature as a poet when he wrote it

Because his fans loved it and begged him to read it

He never did make it to Innisfree to plant the nine bean rows

Because his ex-girlfriend lived in Innisfree

QUESTION 21

Yeat's wife kept him entertained on their honeymoon with her "talent" for

lip synching Justin Bieber tunes

the ability to whistle through her teeth

automatic writing, in which she took "dictation" from the spirit world and wrote it down as it was "spoken" to her

fishing

QUESTION 9

In Joyce's "The Dead," who do you think is the "dead"? Give a name and make a brief case for it.

The buildings at Fernham are much younger than the ones at Oxbridge

The gardens at Fernham are much more unruly than the manicured lawns at Oxbridge

She is welcomed into the library at Oxbridge but not at Fernham

the AntiChrist

an Egyptian god

The personified terrors of WWI

Major John McBride

QUESTION 14

Name and describe one major difference between the men's college and the women's college in Woolf's "A Room of One's Own."

Explanation / Answer

13) Yeats is more violentive towards the Bible so the correct answer is option 1 i.e the anti- christ. The other options are wrong.

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