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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Yeats have the chance to protect Maud Gonne?
(a) 1797.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1887.

2. What year did Yeats win the Nobel Prize?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1893.

3. What did Yeats compare poetry to?
(a) A religion.
(b) A young person in love.
(c) A war with words.
(d) A country.

4. Why was Yeats afraid to ask his best friend permission for something he wanted to do?
(a) He knew he would be denied.
(b) He did not want to reveal the thoughts of death.
(c) He did not want to hurt his feelings.
(d) He did not want to make him worry needlessly.

5. Where was the Nobel Prize reception held?
(a) A fancy hotel.
(b) The docks.
(c) The National Convention Center.
(d) The Royal Palace.

6. Where did Yeats get his limited knowledge of Sweden?
(a) Passengers on the boat.
(b) Books.
(c) New from friends.
(d) Newspapers.

7. What was referenced many times in Synge's last play?
(a) Death.
(b) Religion.
(c) Hell.
(d) Hatred.

8. Why was Yeats mad when the death of another writer got more attention than the death of Synge?
(a) The other writer was a felon.
(b) The other writer had wronged Synge.
(c) The other writer was not from Ireland.
(d) The writer was not as good as Synge.

9. What was the most controversial part of Countess Cathleen?
(a) An Irish man wants to be English.
(b) A Catholic priest is the villain.
(c) A woman sells her soul to the devil.
(d) A man beats a woman.

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

11. Which part of education did Yeats think was insufficient?
(a) History.
(b) Literature.
(c) Grammar.
(d) Philosophy.

12. What did Yeats and Kady Gregory do to change the theater rule in Ireland?
(a) Held rallies.
(b) Signed petitions.
(c) Made personal visits.
(d) Wrote letters.

13. What did Yeats say was invulnerable to misinterpretation?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Personal Belief.
(c) Religious Doctrine.
(d) Internal thoughts.

14. What did Yeats say the world was too preoccupied with?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Material things.
(c) Their jobs.
(d) Religion.

15. What did Yeats say brought passion into paintings?
(a) The past.
(b) The subject.
(c) The artist.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lady Gregory promise to help Yeats raise money for?

2. How did Yeats think a writer should learn to write about different kinds of people?

3. What does Yeats say most people find in poetry?

4. What kind of person did Yeats say the public did not understand about artists?

5. What did Yeats want to ask his best friend permission to do?

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