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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bounty of Sweden,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yeats say the writer had many of?
(a) Homes.
(b) Masks.
(c) Personalities.
(d) Friends.

2. Why was Yeats happy that O'Leary was dead before Playboy of the Western World was presented?
(a) He would have taken credit for it.
(b) He would have been obessed with it.
(c) He would have tried to change it.
(d) He would have hated it.

3. What did Yeats say got him interested in studying what he taught his sponsor?
(a) The teaching of a college professor.
(b) Strange childhood events.
(c) Dreams from his youth.
(d) His father's rigidness.

4. What did Synge say helped him reach his acceptance?
(a) The publication of his book.
(b) The marriage of his son.
(c) Visions from a friend.
(d) Letters from his daughter.

5. How did Yeats think a writer should learn to write about different kinds of people?
(a) Live with different kinds of people.
(b) Observe different kinds of people.
(c) Write for more than one group of people.
(d) Get critiques from different kinds of people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange idea did Henley embrace just before his death?

2. How was Maud treated by the public?

3. How did Yeats feel about his writing after his first book was published?

4. What did Yeats dream about when he was living with Symons?

5. What was Synge's final play?

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