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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Yeats's sponsor familiar with Mysticism?
(a) He was familiar with Yeats's medium.
(b) He had a second-sighted maid.
(c) He was a faith healer.
(d) He had seen his mother raised from the dead.

2. Where was Playboy of the Western World presented?
(a) Abby Theater.
(b) Dublin's Theater.
(c) The National Theater.
(d) Irish Center Theater.

3. Why did the starving artist refuse the job that Yeats found for her?
(a) It was too far from her home.
(b) She did not like her boss.
(c) There were too many restrictions.
(d) It would not be true to her art.

4. What strange idea did Henley embrace just before his death?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Magic.
(d) Symbolism.

5. Who wrote a short story about a man questioning God about life?
(a) Shaw.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Wilde.
(d) Synge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats see that visions affected?

2. Which lessons did Yeats's father think were the most important for his son to learn?

3. Whose writings did Ellis introduce Yeats to?

4. What was Henley's occupation?

5. What did Yeats blame for his logical style?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Yeats get to be his sponsor, and what kind of man was he?

2. What was the story an old acquaintance told Yeats while he was in Paris?

3. What did Yeats think caused the poets he knew to be so tragic?

4. What did Yeats think of his first seance?

5. How did Yeats meet Dowden, and what did Dowden teach Yeats?

6. How did Yeats feel when he started seeing a medium to help him discover his character?

7. How did Yeats heal the boy with smallpox?

8. What did Shaw blame for the poor reception of his first play in England, and how was this received?

9. Why did Yeats dream of building a theater?

10. What special gift did Russel have that he used to help other people?

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