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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) Yeats.
(b) Synge.
(c) Wilde.
(d) Moore.

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

3. What was Maud doing when she needed protection?
(a) Going on a speaking tour.
(b) Performing in a controversial play.
(c) Confronting a corrupt government official.
(d) Presenting a controversial work of art.

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

5. Who did Yeats think deserved his Nobel Prize more than himself?
(a) Synge.
(b) Melville.
(c) Moore.
(d) Mann.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Yeats feel when he was around Lady Gregory?

3. What was Yeats humbled by when he got to Stockholm?

4. How did Yeats feel about his writing after his first book was published?

5. What did Yeats say made Moore's writing improve?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the public treat Maud?

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

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

7. Who was Michael Davitt?

8. How did Yeats feel about literature education?

9. What was so controversial about Countess Cathleen?

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

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