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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yeats think of most of the people who joined his poetry society?
(a) They were ungrateful.
(b) They were boring.
(c) They were uneducated.
(d) They were insincere.

2. Who died while Wilde was in prison?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) His lover.
(d) His daughter.

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

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

5. How did Yeats cure a boy?
(a) Painted symbols on his face.
(b) Cleansed his aura.
(c) Used faith healing.
(d) Had him stare at a symbol.

6. What did the theosophists talk about?
(a) Literature.
(b) Religion.
(c) Art.
(d) Politics.

7. How did Hyde promote Irish literature?
(a) He wrote about Irish legends.
(b) He attended all assemblies for Irish work.
(c) He translated old work.
(d) He went on campaigns.

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

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

10. What was the name of the poetry society Yeats formed with Rhys?
(a) The Poet's Corner.
(b) The Literary Works Guild.
(c) The Poetry Circuit.
(d) The Rhymer's Club.

11. What did Yeats see that visions affected?
(a) People's thoughts.
(b) People's health.
(c) People's dreams.
(d) People's moods.

12. What did Yeats say got him interested in studying what he taught his sponsor?
(a) Dreams from his youth.
(b) Strange childhood events.
(c) His father's rigidness.
(d) The teaching of a college professor.

13. What playwright did Yeats enjoy when he returned to Bedford Park?
(a) Synge.
(b) Ibsen.
(c) Wilde.
(d) Rhys.

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

15. What were Johnson's religious beliefs?
(a) Gaelic.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Atheist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Yeats's grandparents live?

3. What political belief did Yeats begin to explore after his move from Dublin?

4. What was Hyde unable to do to any artist?

5. What did Yeats's father do to get Yeats to improve his studies after moving to Dublin?

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