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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dramatis Personae: 1896-1902,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the boy that Yeats cured sick with?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Diptheria.

2. What playwright did Yeats enjoy when he returned to Bedford Park?
(a) Synge.
(b) Wilde.
(c) Ibsen.
(d) Rhys.

3. What did MacGregor teach Yeats about?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Theology.

4. Who did Yeats's medium call the spirits she got her information from?
(a) The Floaters.
(b) The Masters.
(c) The Drifters.
(d) The Gods.

5. Who got mad at Moore when his plays became popular?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Lady Gregory.
(c) Martyn.
(d) Yeats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats say got him interested in studying what he taught his sponsor?

2. Who was the president of the Literary Society?

3. What did Yeats think every man had the ability to do?

4. What did many of Wilde's friends encourage him to do?

5. Who almost ruined Yeats's plan to make the Gaelic play a success?

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