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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Maud's occupation?
(a) Poet.
(b) Actress.
(c) Artist.
(d) Activist.

2. What did Yeats talk about at the Royal Academy of Sweden?
(a) His feelings about literature.
(b) Irish Theater.
(c) His childhood.
(d) English History.

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

4. What kind of guests did Lady Gregory like to have visit her house?
(a) Artists.
(b) Irish writers.
(c) Poor peasants.
(d) Family members.

5. What did Yeats say his work made him feel?
(a) Estrangement.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Exasperations.
(d) Entanglement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Yeats win the Nobel Prize?

2. Why was Yeats mad when the death of another writer got more attention than the death of Synge?

3. What did Yeats say the public lacked?

4. What did Lady Gregory help Yeats become?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Yeats thinking about while he was being presented to the Royal Family?

2. What led Yeats to spend so much time with Lady Gregory?

3. What did Yeats want to ask of Synge before his death, and why didn't he?

4. What was Yeats usually feeling when he wrote in his diaries?

5. What did the Nobel winners do after receiving their awards, and why?

6. How did Moore act when the theater ran into financial problems?

7. How did the public treat Maud?

8. What did Yeats write about in his letters to Lady Gregory?

9. What was so controversial about Countess Cathleen?

10. Who was hired to write a Gaelic play for the theater, and how did Yeats view this writer?

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