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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yeats compare the phases of literature to?
(a) The seasons in a year.
(b) The age of man.
(c) The moon.
(d) A growing child.

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

3. What did Yeats once predict about his grandfather?
(a) He would cut his hand.
(b) He would lose his business.
(c) He would wear a strange hat.
(d) He would be in a shipwreck.

4. What did Yeats's mother think people in London indulged too much in?
(a) Public affection.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Voicing their opinions.
(d) Swearing.

5. What was Johnson's biggest vice?
(a) He was prejudiced.
(b) He was an alcoholic.
(c) He was addicted to caffeine.
(d) He used opium.

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

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

8. Where did Yeats get the starving artist a job?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) An art school.
(c) A hospital.
(d) An advertising company.

9. What strange idea did Henley embrace just before his death?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Religion.
(d) Magic.

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

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

12. What did the members of the Rhymer's Club do to support each other's work?
(a) Limited their own recitations.
(b) Bought copies of their books.
(c) Shared their own.
(d) Offered critiques.

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

14. What was Henley's occupation?
(a) Artist.
(b) Poet.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Scientist.

15. Where did the Yeats family move after they lived in Dublin?
(a) Canterville Chase.
(b) Fairfax Landing.
(c) Bedfield Park.
(d) Mansfield Place.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Yeats say was perfect in his writing?

2. Who did Yeats watch react to instincts when he was an older man?

3. What did Yeats's sponsor hate talking about?

4. Where did Yeats's sponsor live?

5. Why did a schoolmate teach Yeats to box?

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