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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 impressed Yeats about the person who wrote a Gaelic play for him?
(a) They wrote all day long.
(b) Their plot line was so intricate.
(c) They were open to critiques.
(d) They were fast and professional.

2. What did Yeats say the world was too preoccupied with?
(a) Their jobs.
(b) Religion.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Material things.

3. Why was Yeats mad when the death of another writer got more attention than the death of Synge?
(a) The other writer was not from Ireland.
(b) The other writer had wronged Synge.
(c) The other writer was a felon.
(d) The writer was not as good as Synge.

4. Where did Yeats write about how his work made him feel?
(a) His diary.
(b) His letters.
(c) His poems.
(d) His plays.

5. How did Yeats feel when he was around Lady Gregory?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Arrogant.
(c) Gallant.
(d) Relaxed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Davitt think politicians could not understand?

2. What did Moore and Yeats do when they worked on plays together?

3. What two things did Yeats say were separate entities?

4. What season did Yeats like to spend with Lady Gregory?

5. What did Yeats say a writer had to do to be appreciated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Yeats told while in a trance?

2. What did Yeats say the duty of the writer was?

3. How did Yeats feel when he found out he was being considered for the Nobel Prize of Literature?

4. How did Moore act when the theater ran into financial problems?

5. What was Yeats happy about when Synge's last play was performed?

6. What did Yeats do to make the Gaelic play a success, and how was this plan almost ruined?

7. What kind of speeches did Maud give when Yeats accompanied her?

8. How did the public treat Maud?

9. What did Lady Gregory do for Yeats?

10. What was so controversial about Countess Cathleen?

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