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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 did Yeats's sponsor hate talking about?
(a) Religion.
(b) Traditional roles.
(c) Politics.
(d) Literature.

2. How did Hyde promote Irish literature?
(a) He wrote about Irish legends.
(b) He attended all assemblies for Irish work.
(c) He went on campaigns.
(d) He translated old work.

3. What did many of Wilde's friends encourage him to do?
(a) Continue writing.
(b) Make an apology letter.
(c) Leave the country.
(d) Fight for his rights.

4. What did Yeats's fellow poets use to analyze their poetry?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Description.
(c) Logic.
(d) Spirituality.

5. What was the name of the poetry society Yeats formed with Rhys?
(a) The Poet's Corner.
(b) The Literary Works Guild.
(c) The Poetry Circuit.
(d) The Rhymer's Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject was the Rhymer's club fixated on?

2. Why did the starving artist refuse the job that Yeats found for her?

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

4. What impressed Yeats about the person who wrote a Gaelic play for him?

5. Where did Yeats get the starving artist a job?

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