Autobiographies Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Autobiographies Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Russell seen among the theosophists?
(a) The follower.
(b) The leader.
(c) The sponsor.
(d) The teacher.

2. Why did Yeats never express his feelings the first time he fell in love?
(a) She was much too old for him.
(b) She was much too young for him.
(c) She was too good for him.
(d) She was engaged to another man.

3. What did Yeats see that visions affected?
(a) People's health.
(b) People's dreams.
(c) People's thoughts.
(d) People's moods.

4. Where did Yeats start the National Literary Society?
(a) Dublin.
(b) London.
(c) Halifax.
(d) Sussex.

5. Why did a schoolmate teach Yeats to box?
(a) To make better friends.
(b) To find something he could excel at.
(c) To help him train for an event.
(d) To help him defend himself from bullies.

6. What made Taylor so close to insane?
(a) His shyness.
(b) His paranoia.
(c) His rigid beliefs.
(d) His past experiences.

7. Where did Yeats get the starving artist a job?
(a) An art school.
(b) An advertising company.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A hospital.

8. Why did the starving artist refuse the job that Yeats found for her?
(a) It was too far from her home.
(b) It would not be true to her art.
(c) She did not like her boss.
(d) There were too many restrictions.

9. Where did Yeats like to sleep at night while in Dublin?
(a) Old castles.
(b) Under the stars.
(c) Churches.
(d) His mother's house.

10. What was MacGregor studying when Yeats met him?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Greek.
(c) Religion.
(d) Magic.

11. Whose writings did Ellis introduce Yeats to?
(a) Blake.
(b) Longfellow.
(c) Donne.
(d) Shakespeare.

12. Who did Yeats say was perfect in his writing?
(a) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Shakespeare.

13. What was Johnson's biggest vice?
(a) He was addicted to caffeine.
(b) He was an alcoholic.
(c) He used opium.
(d) He was prejudiced.

14. What did Yeats like to do most when he visited his grandparents?
(a) Sail small boats.
(b) Walk the trail by the river.
(c) Swim.
(d) Listen to his grandmother.

15. What did Yeats think every man had the ability to do?
(a) Express himself.
(b) Write.
(c) Have visions.
(d) Think philosophically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the poetry society Yeats formed with Rhys?

2. What did Yeats's mother think people in London indulged too much in?

3. Why did Yeats's father move to England?

4. How did Davidson die?

5. What caused Wilde to lose respect in his writing?

(see the answer keys)

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