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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Yeats feel about his writing after his first book was published?
(a) It sounded like a stranger's voice.
(b) It was very original.
(c) It was too ornamental.
(d) It was on the road to perfection.

2. What did some of Yeats's friends all have dreams of?
(a) Synge's death.
(b) Yeats's wedding.
(c) War planes over head.
(d) The fall of the English government.

3. What did Yeats say made Moore's writing improve?
(a) His time in the theater.
(b) His love affairs.
(c) His criticism.
(d) His time in the company of writers.

4. What did a man tell Yeats when he was in a trance?
(a) To live by water.
(b) To return to his homeland.
(c) To travel abroad.
(d) To move to America.

5. What did Yeats say the world was too preoccupied with?
(a) Religion.
(b) Their jobs.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Material things.

6. What does Yeats say most people find in poetry?
(a) Hidden thoughts.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Desire.

7. How did Yeats travel to Stockholm?
(a) Plane.
(b) Boat.
(c) Train.
(d) Bus.

8. Which of the following was NOT a gift given to Yeats by Lady Gregory?
(a) Pen set.
(b) Leather chair.
(c) Money.
(d) Encouraging letters.

9. What did Yeats say caused comedy in literature?
(a) Satirical truths.
(b) Inarticulated desires.
(c) Folly and Foils.
(d) Clash of character.

10. What did Yeats's brother spend much of his time doing?
(a) Painting.
(b) Reading.
(c) Walking.
(d) Sleeping.

11. What did Yeats say his work made him feel?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Estrangement.
(c) Entanglement.
(d) Exasperations.

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

13. What was referenced many times in Synge's last play?
(a) Religion.
(b) Death.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Hell.

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

15. What did Synge say helped him reach his acceptance?
(a) Letters from his daughter.
(b) Visions from a friend.
(c) The publication of his book.
(d) The marriage of his son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats say happened when people lacked the depth of a writer?

2. What impressed Yeats about the person who wrote a Gaelic play for him?

3. What year did Yeats win the Nobel Prize?

4. When did Yeats have the chance to protect Maud Gonne?

5. What did Yeats dream about when he was living with Symons?

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