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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Estrangement: Extracts from a Diary Kept in 1909,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who did Yeats say was perfect in his writing?
(a) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

4. What did Yeats think his writing was full of when he met MacGregor?
(a) Logical flaws.
(b) Cliches.
(c) Copied styles.
(d) Generalizations.

5. Who often shared Yeats's visions?
(a) His wife.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His daughter.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the theosophists talk about?

2. What did Davitt think politicians could not understand?

3. What did Moore do that made Yeats incredibly upset?

4. What helped Yeats break free from imitating his father's style?

5. Whose writings did Ellis introduce Yeats to?

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