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

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

4. Which theater showed Synge's last play?
(a) The Longhorn International Theater.
(b) The English National Theater.
(c) The Globe Theater.
(d) The Abby Theater.

5. Who got mad at Moore when his plays became popular?
(a) Wilde.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Martyn.
(d) Lady Gregory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Yeats win the Nobel Prize?

2. Who did Yeats ask to write a Gaelic play?

3. What did most of the theaters in Ireland perform plays for?

4. Why was Yeats mad when the death of another writer got more attention than the death of Synge?

5. What word did Yeats use to describe Maud?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was hired to write a Gaelic play for the theater, and how did Yeats view this writer?

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

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

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

5. How did the public treat Maud?

6. Who was Michael Davitt?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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