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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yeats say happened when people lacked the depth of a writer?
(a) They needed a map to read good literature.
(b) They skipped over important details.
(c) They misinterpreted literature.
(d) They did not appreciate symbolism.

2. What season did Yeats like to spend with Lady Gregory?
(a) Spring.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

3. What did Lady Gregory help Yeats become?
(a) Patient.
(b) Calm.
(c) Healthy.
(d) Disciplined.

4. How did Yeats think a writer should learn to write about different kinds of people?
(a) Get critiques from different kinds of people.
(b) Live with different kinds of people.
(c) Write for more than one group of people.
(d) Observe different kinds of people.

5. What did Yeats say a writer had to do to be appreciated?
(a) Go to prison.
(b) Get sick.
(c) Write volumes and volumes.
(d) Die.

6. What did Yeats and Kady Gregory do to change the theater rule in Ireland?
(a) Wrote letters.
(b) Held rallies.
(c) Signed petitions.
(d) Made personal visits.

7. What was Maud doing when she needed protection?
(a) Confronting a corrupt government official.
(b) Going on a speaking tour.
(c) Presenting a controversial work of art.
(d) Performing in a controversial play.

8. Where did Yeats get his limited knowledge of Sweden?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Passengers on the boat.
(c) New from friends.
(d) Books.

9. Where did Yeats write about how his work made him feel?
(a) His letters.
(b) His diary.
(c) His plays.
(d) His poems.

10. When did Yeats have the chance to protect Maud Gonne?
(a) 1797.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1887.

11. What was Yeats humbled by when he got to Stockholm?
(a) He saw a poster of himself.
(b) He heard one of his poems being quoted.
(c) He was recognized.
(d) He saw the man who lost the award.

12. What caused Lady Gregory to move to her country estate?
(a) Her husband died.
(b) Her son was killed.
(c) She lost part of her fortune.
(d) Her inheritance was taken away.

13. Who was being considered for the Nobel Prize along with Yeats?
(a) Kipling.
(b) Shaw.
(c) Herr Man.
(d) Melville.

14. What two things did Yeats say were separate entities?
(a) Politics and Government.
(b) Poetry and Literature.
(c) Philosophy and Spiritualism.
(d) History and the Past.

15. How did Yeats feel when Synge's death went unnoticed?
(a) Angry.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Yeats use to describe Maud?

2. What did Lady Gregory promise to help Yeats raise money for?

3. Which theater showed Synge's last play?

4. What did Yeats say gave poetic words passion?

5. How did most of Synge's friends view his acceptance?

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