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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 have visions of?
(a) Strangely dressed women.
(b) Angels and demons.
(c) Naked children.
(d) Tall men.

2. What subject was the Rhymer's club fixated on?
(a) Religion.
(b) Sex.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Tragedy.

3. What did MacGregor teach Yeats about?
(a) Theology.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Mysticism.

4. What did Yeats's fellow poets use to analyze their poetry?
(a) Logic.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Description.

5. Who did Yeats watch react to instincts when he was an older man?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His servant.
(c) His son.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Yeats's grandparents live?

2. Where did Yeats like to sleep at night while in Dublin?

3. What was the name of the poetry society Yeats formed with Rhys?

4. Where was Rhys from?

5. What caused Wilde to lose respect in his writing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Yeats realize while watching his daughter when he was an older man?

3. How did Yeats feel about Oscar Wilde when he met the famous author?

4. How did Yeats heal the boy with smallpox?

5. How did Hyde and O'Grady help to promote Irish literature?

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

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

8. How did Yeats feel when he learned more about his spiritual side?

9. Why did Wilde refuse to run away when he had the chance?

10. Why did Yeats dream of building a theater?

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