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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 helped Yeats break free from imitating his father's style?
(a) Spiritualism.
(b) A talk with a teacher.
(c) A dream.
(d) Mysticism.

2. Who died while Wilde was in prison?
(a) His lover.
(b) His mother.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His wife.

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

4. What caused Wilde to lose respect in his writing?
(a) His bad reputation.
(b) His arrest.
(c) His lunacy.
(d) His sickness.

5. Why was Yeats happy that O'Leary was dead before Playboy of the Western World was presented?
(a) He would have hated it.
(b) He would have been obessed with it.
(c) He would have tried to change it.
(d) He would have taken credit for it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Yeats start the National Literary Society?

2. What strange thing did Johnson do when he met Yeats?

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

4. Where did Yeats's sponsor live?

5. What was Maud doing when she needed protection?

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