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

2. What did Yeats dream about when he was living with Symons?
(a) A beautiful woman.
(b) A burning flag.
(c) A tree.
(d) A ship.

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

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

5. What did Lady Gregory promise to help Yeats raise money for?
(a) A literary society.
(b) A theater.
(c) A new house.
(d) A publishing firm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lady Gregory want Yeats to stop writing?

2. What did Moore and Yeats do when they worked on plays together?

3. Where did Yeats get his limited knowledge of Sweden?

4. Which part of education did Yeats think was insufficient?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What two things was Yeats adamant about remaining separate from each other?

2. What did Lady Gregory do for Yeats?

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

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

5. What kind of speeches did Maud give when Yeats accompanied her?

6. Who was Michael Davitt?

7. How did Yeats feel about literature education?

8. What was so controversial about Countess Cathleen?

9. What did Moore do that irritated Yeats most of all?

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

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