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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. Why was Yeats happy that O'Leary was dead before Playboy of the Western World was presented?
(a) He would have tried to change it.
(b) He would have been obessed with it.
(c) He would have taken credit for it.
(d) He would have hated it.

2. What kind of college did Hyde attend?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Socialist.

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

4. Who did Yeats's medium call the spirits she got her information from?
(a) The Gods.
(b) The Floaters.
(c) The Masters.
(d) The Drifters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the starving artist refuse the job that Yeats found for her?

2. What did Yeats have visions of?

3. Where did the Yeats family move after they lived in Dublin?

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

5. What did Yeats often think of his father's opinion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Henley do to help Yeats find his identity?

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

3. What kind of work was considered for sponsorship in the National Literary Society?

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

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

6. What did Yeats think of his first seance?

7. How were Yeats's grandfathers different in their personalities?

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

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

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

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