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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 two things did Yeats say were separate entities?
(a) History and the Past.
(b) Poetry and Literature.
(c) Philosophy and Spiritualism.
(d) Politics and Government.

2. How did Yeats think a writer should learn to write about different kinds of people?
(a) Write for more than one group of people.
(b) Observe different kinds of people.
(c) Get critiques from different kinds of people.
(d) Live with different kinds of people.

3. Who sponsored Yeats's books after the Society didn't?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His old teacher.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandfather.

4. Where did Yeats like to sleep at night while in Dublin?
(a) Old castles.
(b) Churches.
(c) Under the stars.
(d) His mother's house.

5. How was Russell seen among the theosophists?
(a) The sponsor.
(b) The follower.
(c) The leader.
(d) The teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Yeats feel when he was around Lady Gregory?

2. What did Symons dream about when he was living with Yeats?

3. What impressed Yeats about the person who wrote a Gaelic play for him?

4. What did Yeats often think of his father's opinion?

5. What did the members of the Rhymer's Club do to support each other's work?

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