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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. Where did Yeats's grandparents live?
(a) Slingo.
(b) Slitho.
(c) Sligo.
(d) Slitto.

2. What did Yeats once predict about his grandfather?
(a) He would cut his hand.
(b) He would wear a strange hat.
(c) He would lose his business.
(d) He would be in a shipwreck.

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

4. Who did Yeats say was perfect in his writing?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Rudyard Kipling.
(c) Faulkner.
(d) Shakespeare.

5. What did Yeats say got him interested in studying what he taught his sponsor?
(a) The teaching of a college professor.
(b) His father's rigidness.
(c) Strange childhood events.
(d) Dreams from his youth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Hyde promote Irish literature?

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

4. What was Mary Battle's occupation?

5. What was the boy that Yeats cured sick with?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was MacGregor obsessed with when he lived in Paris?

4. How did Yeats heal the boy with smallpox?

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

6. Why did Yeats dream of building a theater?

7. What did Yeats think of his first seance?

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

9. Who lived across the street from Yeats when his family moved to Bedfield Park?

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

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