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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 compare poetry to?
(a) A young person in love.
(b) A religion.
(c) A war with words.
(d) A country.

2. What did Yeats talk about at the Royal Academy of Sweden?
(a) English History.
(b) His childhood.
(c) Irish Theater.
(d) His feelings about literature.

3. What did Yeats want to do to make the Gaelic play a success?
(a) Post advertisements.
(b) Make an apology about Countess Cathleen.
(c) Have Lady Gregory give the Prologue.
(d) Hire a famous actress.

4. When did Yeats have the chance to protect Maud Gonne?
(a) 1797.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1887.
(d) 1787.

5. What country did Davitt want to protect?
(a) Britain.
(b) Wales.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What impressed Yeats about the person who wrote a Gaelic play for him?

2. How did most of Synge's friends view his acceptance?

3. Which theater showed Synge's last play?

4. Why did the award winners return to their seats backwards after getting their prizes?

5. What did Yeats say the public lacked?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Michael Davitt?

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

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

4. What was Yeats usually feeling when he wrote in his diaries?

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

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

7. What did Yeats want to ask of Synge before his death, and why didn't he?

8. What was so controversial about Countess Cathleen?

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

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

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