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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 say caused comedy in literature?
(a) Clash of character.
(b) Folly and Foils.
(c) Inarticulated desires.
(d) Satirical truths.

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

3. What did Yeats want to ask his best friend permission to do?
(a) Help with his poetry.
(b) Court his daughter.
(c) Read his journal.
(d) Finish his play.

4. Who did Yeats think was not appreciated during his life?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Synge.
(d) Shaw.

5. What did Yeats's brother spend much of his time doing?
(a) Painting.
(b) Reading.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Walking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Yeats told to avoid in his trance-like state?

2. What was the man sitting by Yeats at the reception so worried about?

3. Who did Yeats think deserved his Nobel Prize more than himself?

4. What did Yeats say the public lacked?

5. Who was being considered for the Nobel Prize along with Yeats?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What two things was Yeats adamant about remaining separate from each other?

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

5. What did Yeats write about in his letters to Lady Gregory?

6. How did the public treat Maud?

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

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

9. How did Synge feel about his impending death, and how was this viewed by his friends?

10. How did Yeats feel about literature education?

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