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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 Moore do that made Yeats incredibly upset?
(a) Took the credit for their collaborative work.
(b) Had sordid love afffairs.
(c) Imitated his writing style.
(d) Spread rumors about Lady Gregory.

2. What did Yeats say brought passion into paintings?
(a) God.
(b) The subject.
(c) The artist.
(d) The past.

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

4. What did Davitt think politicians could not understand?
(a) International matters.
(b) Logic.
(c) Peasants.
(d) Finances.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Yeats get his limited knowledge of Sweden?

2. What was Yeats struggling to write when he met Lady Gregory?

3. What did some of Yeats's friends all have dreams of?

4. What did Yeats's brother spend much of his time doing?

5. What did Yeats say was threatening the best parts of Ireland?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Lady Gregory do for Yeats?

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

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

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

6. What was so controversial about Countess Cathleen?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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