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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 insincere.
(b) They were boring.
(c) They were ungrateful.
(d) They were uneducated.

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

3. What did Yeats say the world was too preoccupied with?
(a) Religion.
(b) Their jobs.
(c) Material things.
(d) Themselves.

4. Who got mad at Moore when his plays became popular?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Lady Gregory.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Martyn.

5. What did Yeats and Kady Gregory do to change the theater rule in Ireland?
(a) Held rallies.
(b) Made personal visits.
(c) Signed petitions.
(d) Wrote letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Moore and Yeats do when they worked on plays together?

2. What did Lady Gregory want Yeats to stop writing?

3. What did Yeats say was threatening the best parts of Ireland?

4. Which lessons did Yeats's father think were the most important for his son to learn?

5. Who did Shaw blame when his play was received badly?

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