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 The Ballad of Father Gilligan

By William Butler Yeats

Multiple Choice Question and Answer







1. What is a ballad?





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





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





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





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





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




7. What had happened to the parishioners?





8. Who are father Gilligan's flock?





9. What does "under green sods lay imply?





10. When did the father nod on a chair?





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





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




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





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





15. What did the father complain??






16. Why did the father have no rest?





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





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





19. How did the father pray?





20. Why did he fall asleep during his prayer?





21. What happened when the father slept?





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



23. What happened to the stars?





24. And the leaves _______ in the wind.





25. Who whispered to mankind?




26. Who covered the world with darkness?





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





28. When did the father wake up?





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





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





31.Father Gilligan was a _______.





32. Father Gilligan's duty was ________.





33. The Ballad of father Gilligan describes ____ time.





34. Father Gilligan was tired of _______.





35. Father had no rest and joy because _______.





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




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





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





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





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





41. Why was the father shocked?





42. Whom did father Gilligan ride with less care?




43. Why did father Gilligan ride with less care?





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





45. Who opened the door?






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





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





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





49. Why did he old priest sway in grief?





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





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





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



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





54. For whom has God made the starry nights?





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




56. What does God have in his care?





57. God is wrapped in ________.





58. Whom did God have pity on?





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





60. God sent ______ to attend the sickman





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




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