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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the man sitting by Yeats at the reception so worried about?
(a) Making a good impression.
(b) Offending the royals.
(c) Returning home.
(d) Being laughed at.

5. Who wrote Countess Cathleen?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Synge.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Moore.

6. Who did Yeats ask to write a Gaelic play?
(a) Maud.
(b) Davitt.
(c) Martyn.
(d) Hyde.

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

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

9. 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 heard one of his poems being quoted.
(d) He saw a poster of himself.

10. Which part of education did Yeats think was insufficient?
(a) Literature.
(b) Grammar.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) History.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Maud treated by the public?

2. What did a man tell Yeats when he was in a trance?

3. What word did Yeats use to describe Maud?

4. What did Yeats want to ask his best friend permission to do?

5. What did Yeats say caused comedy in literature?

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