View a FREE sample

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

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

3. Why did Yeats never express his feelings the first time he fell in love?
(a) She was too good for him.
(b) She was much too young for him.
(c) She was much too old for him.
(d) She was engaged to another man.

4. What does Yeats say most people find in poetry?
(a) Desire.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Hidden thoughts.
(d) Spirituality.

5. What did Davitt think politicians could not understand?
(a) Finances.
(b) International matters.
(c) Logic.
(d) Peasants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats want to do to make the Gaelic play a success?

2. What did Yeats say the writer had many of?

3. What country did Davitt want to protect?

4. What was Yeats struggling to write when he met Lady Gregory?

5. Who reminded Yeats of his grandfather?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 180 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample