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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Trembling of the Veil, Book III. Hodos Chameliontos,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was president of the Young Ireland Society?
(a) Donnaghy.
(b) O'Malley.
(c) Callaghan.
(d) O'Leary.

2. Where did Yeats's sponsor live?
(a) Dublin.
(b) London.
(c) Bedfield Park.
(d) Sligo.

3. Why was Yeats happy that O'Leary was dead before Playboy of the Western World was presented?
(a) He would have hated it.
(b) He would have taken credit for it.
(c) He would have tried to change it.
(d) He would have been obessed with it.

4. What did the theosophists talk about?
(a) Politics.
(b) Literature.
(c) Art.
(d) Religion.

5. What was Hyde unable to do to any artist?
(a) Read their work.
(b) Copy their style.
(c) Applaud them.
(d) Criticize them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did a schoolmate teach Yeats to box?

2. What did Yeats think of most of the people who joined his poetry society?

3. What did the general's nephew ask to not be served during a visit?

4. What did Yeats pursue when he gave up physical pleasures?

5. Which lessons did Yeats's father think were the most important for his son to learn?

(see the answer key)

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