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

2. What did Yeats dream about when he was living with Symons?
(a) A burning flag.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) A ship.
(d) A tree.

3. What did some of Yeats's friends all have dreams of?
(a) War planes over head.
(b) Yeats's wedding.
(c) The fall of the English government.
(d) Synge's death.

4. What kind of person did Yeats say the public did not understand about artists?
(a) Their genius.
(b) Their process.
(c) Their motives.
(d) Their struggle.

5. Who did Yeats ask to write a Gaelic play?
(a) Hyde.
(b) Martyn.
(c) Davitt.
(d) Maud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yeats say most people find in poetry?

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

3. What did Yeats want to do to make the Gaelic play a success?

4. What did Lady Gregory help Yeats become?

5. What was the most controversial part of Countess Cathleen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Moore do that irritated Yeats most of all?

3. What did Yeats say was the main difference between religion and spirituality?

4. What was Synge's last play, and how was it received?

5. What led Yeats to spend so much time with Lady Gregory?

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

7. What did the Nobel winners do after receiving their awards, and why?

8. What was Yeats thinking about while he was being presented to the Royal Family?

9. What was Yeats told while in a trance?

10. What was so controversial about Countess Cathleen?

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