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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 did Yeats say gave poetic words passion?
(a) Love.
(b) Lust.
(c) Belief.
(d) Despair.

2. What did Yeats say brought passion into paintings?
(a) The subject.
(b) The artist.
(c) The past.
(d) God.

3. What did Lady Gregory want Yeats to stop writing?
(a) Plays.
(b) Magazine articles.
(c) Poems.
(d) Short stories.

4. What was Maud's occupation?
(a) Artist.
(b) Actress.
(c) Poet.
(d) Activist.

5. What did some of Yeats's friends all have dreams of?
(a) The fall of the English government.
(b) Yeats's wedding.
(c) War planes over head.
(d) Synge's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lady Gregory promise to help Yeats raise money for?

2. How did Yeats feel about his writing after his first book was published?

3. Who almost ruined Yeats's plan to make the Gaelic play a success?

4. Why was Yeats happy that O'Leary was dead before Playboy of the Western World was presented?

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

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