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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 was referenced many times in Synge's last play?
(a) Death.
(b) Religion.
(c) Hell.
(d) Hatred.

2. Who reminded Yeats of his grandfather?
(a) Dowden.
(b) Henley.
(c) O'Leary.
(d) William Morris.

3. Whose writings did Ellis introduce Yeats to?
(a) Longfellow.
(b) Blake.
(c) Donne.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Synge say helped him reach his acceptance?

2. What strange thing did Johnson do when he met Yeats?

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

4. What year did Yeats win the Nobel Prize?

5. Who wrote Countess Cathleen?

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