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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bounty of Sweden,.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which part of education did Yeats think was insufficient?
(a) Grammar.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) History.
(d) Literature.

5. Where did the Yeats family move after they lived in Dublin?
(a) Fairfax Landing.
(b) Bedfield Park.
(c) Mansfield Place.
(d) Canterville Chase.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Davitt want to protect?

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

3. Why did Dowson say he drank so much?

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

5. Who was the president of the Literary Society?

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