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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Symons dream about when he was living with Yeats?
(a) A tree.
(b) A ship.
(c) A beautiful woman.
(d) A burning flag.

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

3. What year did Yeats win the Nobel Prize?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1933.

4. What did most of the theaters in Ireland perform plays for?
(a) Donations.
(b) Charity.
(c) Food and other trade goods.
(d) High charges.

5. What did Yeats want to do to make the Gaelic play a success?
(a) Post advertisements.
(b) Make an apology about Countess Cathleen.
(c) Have Lady Gregory give the Prologue.
(d) Hire a famous actress.

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

7. What did Yeats say the writer had many of?
(a) Homes.
(b) Personalities.
(c) Masks.
(d) Friends.

8. What did Yeats say brought passion into paintings?
(a) The artist.
(b) The past.
(c) God.
(d) The subject.

9. What was Synge's final play?
(a) Darlene of the Secrets.
(b) Deborah of the Sun.
(c) Delilah of the Street.
(d) Deidre of the Sorrows.

10. What was Moore's occupation?
(a) Actor.
(b) Writer.
(c) Artist.
(d) Theater owner.

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

12. What did Yeats talk about at the Royal Academy of Sweden?
(a) His feelings about literature.
(b) Irish Theater.
(c) English History.
(d) His childhood.

13. What did Yeats start worshiping after he was put in a trance?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The moon.
(c) The stars.
(d) The sun.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats say made Moore's writing improve?

2. What kind of person did Yeats say the public did not understand about artists?

3. What was Yeats struggling to write when he met Lady Gregory?

4. How did Yeats feel when he was around Lady Gregory?

5. What did Yeats and Kady Gregory do to change the theater rule in Ireland?

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