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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Trembling of the Veil, Book II. Ireland after Parnell,.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Yeats never express his feelings the first time he fell in love?
(a) She was too good for him.
(b) She was engaged to another man.
(c) She was much too old for him.
(d) She was much too young for him.

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

4. What were Johnson's religious beliefs?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Atheist.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Gaelic.

5. What did Yeats pursue when he gave up physical pleasures?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Spiritualism.
(c) History.
(d) Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Playboy of the Western World presented?

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

3. Where did Yeats start the National Literary Society?

4. Why did Yeats's father move to England?

5. What was the name of the poetry society Yeats formed with Rhys?

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