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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. Who taught Yeats what he taught his sponsor?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Russel.
(c) MacGregor.
(d) Henley.

2. What did the members of the Rhymer's Club do to support each other's work?
(a) Shared their own.
(b) Limited their own recitations.
(c) Bought copies of their books.
(d) Offered critiques.

3. Who did Yeats stay with in Paris?
(a) Shaw.
(b) O'Leary.
(c) Wilde.
(d) MacGregor.

4. What did Moore want to become involved in?
(a) Politics.
(b) Acting.
(c) Writing.
(d) Religion.

5. Who did Shaw blame when his play was received badly?
(a) The audience.
(b) The government.
(c) The producers.
(d) The actors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Yeats's grandfather's occupation?

2. What did a man tell Yeats when he was in a trance?

3. What did Yeats and Kady Gregory do to change the theater rule in Ireland?

4. What did Lady Gregory help Yeats become?

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

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