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 The Ballad of Father Gilligan

By William Butler Yeats

Multiple Choice Question and Answer

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1. What is a ballad?

a. A narrative poem
b. A subjective poem
c. A descriptive poem
d. A short poem

2. Why was William Butler Yeats awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923?

a. For literature
b.For drama
c. For mysticism
d. For "The Ballad of Father Gilligan"

3. William Butler Yeats is a/an ______ poet.

a. English
b. Irish
c. Scottish
d. Welsh

4. Apart from being a poet,William Butler Yeats was also a _____.?

a. dramatist and novelist
b. dramatists and actor
c. dramatist and mystic
d. mystic and priest

5. In the poem "The Ballad of Father Gilligan" the poet _______.

a. moans for the sick parishioners
b. moans for the weary priest
c. glorifies God
d. prays God

6. Why was the old priest weary day and night?

a. His services were required more frequently lately
b. He had a lot of work to do everyday
c. His parishioners were sick and needed his assistance
d. He was required to pray day and night

7. What had happened to the parishioners?

a. They were affected by some infectious dideases
b. Most of them were either dead or in their death beds
c. They had chosen wrong path
4. They had left the priest alone

8. Who are father Gilligan's flock?

a. The sick people>
b. The dead
c. His parishioners
d. The church attendants

9. What does "under green sods lay imply?

a. The parishioners are dead
b. The parishioners are sick
c. The parishioners are dying
d. The parishioners are lying ynder trees

10. When did the father nod on a chair?

a. At the mid-night
b. At the moth-hour of evening
c. In the morning
d. One afternoon

11. What happened when the father nodded on a chair?

a. Another dying man sent for him
b. A sick man sent for him
c. The God sent for him
d. Lots of insects sorrounded him

12. What does the "moth-hour of eve" signify?

a. Evening time
b. Morning Time
c. Night Time
d. Day Time

13. Why does the evening time called the "moth-hour" in the poem?

a. Because it appears like moths flying around
b. Because moths in great numbers appear at this hour
c. Because mooths bring the evening
d. Because moth-hour is another word for evening

14. How did the father react when another poor man sent for him??

a. He denied to go
b. He scolded the messenger
c. He began to grieve
d. He started at once

15. What did the father complain??

a. He had no rest, nor joy, nor peace
b. He had to perform the priestly duties
c. He had no peace, nor rest, nor time
d. He had to always attend the sick

16. Why did the father have no rest?

a. A lot of his parishioners were were sick
b. A lot of his parishioners were dying
c. A lot of his parishioners have disappeared
d. He had to travel a lot

17. Why did he ask for God's forgiveness?

a. He realised that he had committed a sin by complaining
b. He realised that it was his duty to attend the dead
c. He realised that he was wrong in assuming that he had no rest
d. He realised that complaining may make God angry

18. What does "My body spoke, not I!" imply?

a. The father's body spoke not his mouth
b. The father's tired body complained not he
c. The father's body speaks for him
d. The father was very tired so couldn't speak

19. How did the father pray?

a. With his hands folded
b. Kneeling on the ground
c. Kneeling and leaning on the chair
d. In the chair

20. Why did he fall asleep during his prayer?

a. He didn't want to attend the dying man
b. his body was very tired and mind distressed
c. He wanted to have some rest
d. He was sick

21. What happened when the father slept?

a. The moths multiplied in number
b. Another man sent for him
c. Night became deep and windy
d. The evening turned to night

22. What in the poem tells us that the night approached when the father was asleep?

a. Moth-hour began to peep b. He fell aslleep
c. Stars began to appear d. Birds started going to their nest

23. What happened to the stars?

a. They grew in number
b. They dazzled more
c. They looked at the sleeping priest
d. They covered the sky

24. And the leaves _______ in the wind.

a. whistled
b. rustled
c. shook
d. whispered

25. Who whispered to mankind?

a. Stars
b. Trees
c.Wind
d. God

26. Who covered the world with darkness?

a. Sky
b. Tall trees
c. Moths
d. God

27. What does "the time of sparroe-chirp" refer to?

a. Evening
b. Night
c. Dusk
d. Dawn

28. When did the father wake up?

a. At mid-night
b. At dawn
c. In the morning
d. In the afternoon

29. The moths appear on two occasions. What are they?

a. Dusk and dawn
b. Morning and evening
c. Evening and afternoon
d. Night and eveninng

30. What shows that the father was shocked when he woke up?

a. He stood upright
b. He heard the sparrow-chirp
c. He got up with a shocck
d. He started to run

31.Father Gilligan was a _______.

a. Priest
b. a businessman
c. An oldman
d. Saintly man

32. Father Gilligan's duty was ________.

a. to worship God
b. to attend sick people
c. to give medicine to patients
d. to save lives of people

33. The Ballad of father Gilligan describes ____ time.

a. ancient
b. modern
c. epidemic
d. pendamic

34. Father Gilligan was tired of _______.

a. moving from house to house
b. working for people
c. attending patients
d. routine work

35. Father had no rest and joy because _______.

a. he was old
b. he was sick
c. he had no time to sleep
d. people die and die

36. "God covered the world with shade." Here 'shade' means -

a. Shadow
b. Darkness
c. Mercy
d. Sleep

37. "Mavrone" is a word uttered when _______.

a. somebody dies
b. someone taken birth.
c. someone observes a party
d. soldiers march

38. Father uttered "Mavrone", because he thought ______.

a. many people would die soon.>
b. the sickman must have died.
c. he was responsible for the sickman's death
d. God would never execuse him.

39. Father Gilligan says, God is great, because _________.

a. he has made the night of stars
b. he is wrapped in purple robes
c. the planets are under his care
d. All of the above

40. "The least of things" in the poem is ______.

a. an insect
b. a poorman
c. father Gilligan
d. the sickman

41. Why was the father shocked?

a. He saw the moths again
b. He thought that the man had died while he slept
c. He realised that he had not finished his prayer
d. He realised that he couldn't attend the sick man

42. Whom did father Gilligan ride with less care?

a. His parishioner
b. The sick man
c. His horse
d. His attendant

43. Why did father Gilligan ride with less care?

a. He didn't know how to ride a horse
b. He was in a hurry
c. His horse was very reliable
d. He was worried about the man

44. What does "He rode as he never rode, by the rocky lane and fen" convey?

a. Father Gilligan's concern for his parishioners
b. Father Gilligan's reckless riding
c. Father Gilligan's carefreeness
d. Father Gilligan had lost interest in living

45. Who opened the door?

a. The sick man
b. The father
c. An old man
d. The sick man's wife

46. Why was the sick man's wife surprised to see the father?

a. She didn't expect him to come so early
b. The poor man had already died
c. She had seen the father performing the death rituals
d. The father looked weary

47. What did the father ask to the sick man's wife?

a. Was the man dead
b. Was the man doing well
c. Was the man recovering
d. Was the man still alive

48. The sick man's wife said that her husband had died _____.

a. half an hour ago
b. the previous night
c. few minutes ago
d. an hour ago

49. Why did he old priest sway in grief?

a. He couldn't reach earlier
b. He couldn't perform his religious duty
c. He couldn't save the man
d. He couldn't see the dead man

50. What did the poor man's wife say to the priest?

a. The man was in pain at the time of his death
b. The man died happily after the father was gone
c. The man wanted to see the father in his last moments
d. The man was happy when he died

51. Which figure of speech is used in "as merry as a bird"?

a. Metaphor
b. Hyperbole
c. Simile
d. Personification

52. What did the old priest do when he understood that God has sent one of his angels to help him in his need?

a. Prayed to God b. Knelt himself down
c. Praised the God d. Brust into tears

53. Whom had God sent to help the old priest?

a. Another priest
b. He himself came
c. One of his angels
d. No one

54. For whom has God made the starry nights?

a. The sick and the dying
b. The tired souls
c. The dead souls
d. Religious souls

55. Why has God made the starry nights for the sick and the dying?

a. To make them enjoy his creation
b. To make them enjoy his creation
c. To comfort them
d. To let them die peacefully

56. What does God have in his care?

a. The sick man
2. The dead man
c. The priest and his parishioners
d. Planets and everything on the planets

57. God is wrapped in ________.

a. white robes
b. red robes
c. purple robes
d. black robes

58. Whom did God have pity on?

a. The sick man
b. Father Gilligan
c. The sick man's wife
d. Father Gilligan's church

59. Whom did the poet refer to as the father's flock?

a. God's angels
b. The father's sheep
c. Members Of the father's parish
d. The sick men of the father's parish

60. God sent ______ to attend the sickman

a. an angel
b. father Gilligan
c. a messenger
d. a poorman

61. The sickman's wife said that her husband died as merry as ______.

a. a priest
b. a saint
c. a holyman
d. a bird