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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of college did Hyde attend?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Gaelic.

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

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

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

6. Who wrote a short story about a man questioning God about life?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Shaw.
(d) Synge.

7. Where did Yeats's grandparents live?
(a) Slitto.
(b) Slingo.
(c) Slitho.
(d) Sligo.

8. Which lessons did Yeats's father think were the most important for his son to learn?
(a) Greek and Latin.
(b) Arithmetic.
(c) Literature.
(d) History.

9. Who did Yeats stay with in Paris?
(a) Wilde.
(b) MacGregor.
(c) Shaw.
(d) O'Leary.

10. What did MacGregor say could trigger thoughts?
(a) Symbols.
(b) Smells.
(c) Sounds.
(d) Winds.

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

12. How was Yeats's first play that was performed in England received?
(a) Richly.
(b) Fearfully.
(c) Poorly.
(d) Very well.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats have visions of?

2. What caused Johnson to be poor and destitute?

3. What did the general's nephew ask to not be served during a visit?

4. What did the members of the Rhymer's Club do to support each other's work?

5. What made Taylor so close to insane?

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