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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Irish Dramatic Movement: A Lecture delivered to the Royal Academy of Sweden,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of person did Yeats say the public did not understand about artists?
(a) Their genius.
(b) Their struggle.
(c) Their motives.
(d) Their process.

2. Why did the starving artist refuse the job that Yeats found for her?
(a) It was too far from her home.
(b) She did not like her boss.
(c) It would not be true to her art.
(d) There were too many restrictions.

3. Who often shared Yeats's visions?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His wife.
(c) His daughter.
(d) Mary.

4. What was MacGregor studying when Yeats met him?
(a) Religion.
(b) Magic.
(c) Greek.
(d) Philosophy.

5. What did Yeats see that visions affected?
(a) People's moods.
(b) People's thoughts.
(c) People's health.
(d) People's dreams.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Yeats not continue to produce the kind of plays he started out with at his theater?

3. What did Yeats often think of his father's opinion?

4. What did Yeats's fellow poets use to analyze their poetry?

5. Where did the Yeats family move after they lived in Dublin?

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