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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 was the most controversial part of Countess Cathleen?
(a) A man beats a woman.
(b) An Irish man wants to be English.
(c) A Catholic priest is the villain.
(d) A woman sells her soul to the devil.

2. Who wrote Countess Cathleen?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Moore.
(c) Synge.
(d) Wilde.

3. What kind of college did Hyde attend?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Socialist.

4. What playwright did Yeats enjoy when he returned to Bedford Park?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Rhys.
(c) Synge.
(d) Ibsen.

5. Who did Yeats live with while in London?
(a) Henley.
(b) Symons.
(c) Kipling.
(d) Davidson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Yeats's teacher reward him when he did well in school?

2. What was Maud doing when she needed protection?

3. Where did Yeats's grandparents live?

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

5. What word did Yeats use to describe Maud?

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