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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. What did Yeats often think of his father's opinion?
(a) It was wrong.
(b) It was exactly right.
(c) It was too extreme.
(d) It was not logical.

2. What caused Johnson to be poor and destitute?
(a) Opium.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Gambling.

3. Who did Yeats live with while in London?
(a) Henley.
(b) Kipling.
(c) Symons.
(d) Davidson.

4. What would Yeats and his sponsor do while they discussed what Yeats taught him?
(a) Take long walks.
(b) Drink in a tavern.
(c) Sit in chairs.
(d) Fish in the stream.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the president of the Literary Society?

2. Where did Yeats get the starving artist a job?

3. What did Yeats think his writing was full of when he met MacGregor?

4. What did many of Wilde's friends encourage him to do?

5. Why did a schoolmate teach Yeats to box?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Yeats view Bernard Shaw after getting to know him?

2. How was Yeats affected by his friendship with O'Leary?

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

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

5. How did Yeats's opinion of Russel change when he saw him with the theosophists?

6. What did Yeats think of his first seance?

7. Who did Morris remind Yeats of, and what did Morris teach Yeats?

8. How did Mary Battle display her second sight before Yeats came to live at the house?

9. How did Yeats heal the boy with smallpox?

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

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