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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. Who wrote Countess Cathleen?
(a) Synge.
(b) Wilde.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Moore.

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

3. What was the man sitting by Yeats at the reception so worried about?
(a) Returning home.
(b) Making a good impression.
(c) Offending the royals.
(d) Being laughed at.

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

5. How did most of Synge's friends view his acceptance?
(a) A prayer answered.
(b) A sign of strength.
(c) A necessity.
(d) A weakness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who almost ruined Yeats's plan to make the Gaelic play a success?

2. What did Yeats start worshiping after he was put in a trance?

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

4. What was Maud doing when she needed protection?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Yeats got to Stockholm, and how did he feel about this?

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

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

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

5. How did the public treat Maud?

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

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

8. What did Yeats say was ruining the Ireland he loved?

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

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

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