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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 word did Yeats use to describe Maud?
(a) Devoted.
(b) Fascinating.
(c) Insane.
(d) Beautiful.

2. What did Yeats want to do to make the Gaelic play a success?
(a) Post advertisements.
(b) Make an apology about Countess Cathleen.
(c) Have Lady Gregory give the Prologue.
(d) Hire a famous actress.

3. What did Yeats start worshiping after he was put in a trance?
(a) The moon.
(b) The stars.
(c) The sun.
(d) The ocean.

4. What did a man tell Yeats when he was in a trance?
(a) To return to his homeland.
(b) To live by water.
(c) To move to America.
(d) To travel abroad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats say was invulnerable to misinterpretation?

2. Who was being considered for the Nobel Prize along with Yeats?

3. What was the most controversial part of Countess Cathleen?

4. What did Yeats say the writer had many of?

5. What did Yeats say caused comedy in literature?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Yeats told while in a trance?

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

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

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

5. How did Synge feel about his impending death, and how was this viewed by his friends?

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

7. How did Yeats feel about literature education?

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

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

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

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