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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dramatis Personae: 1896-1902,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Lady Gregory to move to her country estate?
(a) Her son was killed.
(b) Her inheritance was taken away.
(c) She lost part of her fortune.
(d) Her husband died.

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

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

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

5. Who wrote Countess Cathleen?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Synge.
(c) Moore.
(d) Yeats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Yeats live with when he started the National Literary Society?

2. What did the theosophists talk about?

3. Why did Dowson say he drank so much?

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

5. What would Yeats and his sponsor do while they discussed what Yeats taught him?

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