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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did a schoolmate teach Yeats to box?
(a) To help him train for an event.
(b) To find something he could excel at.
(c) To make better friends.
(d) To help him defend himself from bullies.

2. How did Yeats's teacher reward him when he did well in school?
(a) Let him run around outside for a minute.
(b) Gave him marbles.
(c) Let him look at a sword.
(d) Gave him candy.

3. What was the boy that Yeats cured sick with?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Diptheria.
(c) Small pox.
(d) Consumption.

4. How was Russell seen among the theosophists?
(a) The teacher.
(b) The sponsor.
(c) The leader.
(d) The follower.

5. What happened to make Yeats interested in religion?
(a) He met a preacher.
(b) He saw a pretty girl entering a church.
(c) He read the Bible.
(d) His brother died.

6. Who was the president of the Literary Society?
(a) MacGregor.
(b) Henley.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) O'Leary.

7. What did Yeats blame for his logical style?
(a) His father.
(b) His religion.
(c) His Irish descent.
(d) His grandfather.

8. What was Mary Battle's occupation?
(a) Publisher.
(b) Artist.
(c) Servant.
(d) Fortune teller.

9. Where was Rhys from?
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Wales.

10. What caused Wilde to lose respect in his writing?
(a) His arrest.
(b) His lunacy.
(c) His sickness.
(d) His bad reputation.

11. Where did Yeats like to sleep at night while in Dublin?
(a) Churches.
(b) His mother's house.
(c) Old castles.
(d) Under the stars.

12. How was Yeats's sponsor familiar with Mysticism?
(a) He was familiar with Yeats's medium.
(b) He had seen his mother raised from the dead.
(c) He was a faith healer.
(d) He had a second-sighted maid.

13. Who taught Yeats what he taught his sponsor?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Henley.
(c) MacGregor.
(d) Russel.

14. Why was Yeats happy that O'Leary was dead before Playboy of the Western World was presented?
(a) He would have tried to change it.
(b) He would have taken credit for it.
(c) He would have hated it.
(d) He would have been obessed with it.

15. Who sponsored Yeats's books after the Society didn't?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His father.
(d) His old teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Shaw blame when his play was received badly?

2. What did the theosophists talk about?

3. What made Taylor so close to insane?

4. Where did Yeats get the starving artist a job?

5. What happened that made Henley deeply depressed?

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