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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 Johnson to be poor and destitute?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Opium.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Gambling.

2. What did Yeats think of most of the people who joined his poetry society?
(a) They were uneducated.
(b) They were ungrateful.
(c) They were insincere.
(d) They were boring.

3. What strange idea did Henley embrace just before his death?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Magic.

4. Who did Yeats ask to write a Gaelic play?
(a) Davitt.
(b) Hyde.
(c) Maud.
(d) Martyn.

5. How did Yeats cure a boy?
(a) Painted symbols on his face.
(b) Had him stare at a symbol.
(c) Cleansed his aura.
(d) Used faith healing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a short story about a man questioning God about life?

2. Who died while Wilde was in prison?

3. What was the boy that Yeats cured sick with?

4. Who did Yeats's medium call the spirits she got her information from?

5. Why was Yeats happy that O'Leary was dead before Playboy of the Western World was presented?

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