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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Moore do that made Yeats incredibly upset?
(a) Imitated his writing style.
(b) Had sordid love afffairs.
(c) Spread rumors about Lady Gregory.
(d) Took the credit for their collaborative work.

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

3. What did Moore and Yeats do when they worked on plays together?
(a) Drink.
(b) Fight.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Collaborate.

4. What was Maud's occupation?
(a) Artist.
(b) Poet.
(c) Actress.
(d) Activist.

5. What kind of person did Yeats say the public did not understand about artists?
(a) Their motives.
(b) Their process.
(c) Their struggle.
(d) Their genius.

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

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

8. What did Synge accept just before he died?
(a) His estrangement from society.
(b) His lack of success.
(c) His belief in God.
(d) His impending death.

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

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

11. What did Yeats want to ask his best friend permission to do?
(a) Finish his play.
(b) Court his daughter.
(c) Read his journal.
(d) Help with his poetry.

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

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

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

15. Why was Yeats afraid to ask his best friend permission for something he wanted to do?
(a) He did not want to make him worry needlessly.
(b) He did not want to hurt his feelings.
(c) He knew he would be denied.
(d) He did not want to reveal the thoughts of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who almost ruined Yeats's plan to make the Gaelic play a success?

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

3. What did Yeats want to do to make the Gaelic play a success?

4. What was Yeats told to avoid in his trance-like state?

5. Who wrote Countess Cathleen?

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