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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 word did Yeats use to describe Maud?
(a) Devoted.
(b) Insane.
(c) Fascinating.
(d) Beautiful.

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

3. What does Yeats say most people find in poetry?
(a) Hidden thoughts.
(b) Desire.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Intelligence.

4. How did Yeats feel about his writing after his first book was published?
(a) It was very original.
(b) It was too ornamental.
(c) It sounded like a stranger's voice.
(d) It was on the road to perfection.

5. How did Yeats feel when Synge's death went unnoticed?
(a) Angry.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which theater showed Synge's last play?

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

3. What did Yeats compare poetry to?

4. What was Synge's final play?

5. What did Yeats say brought passion into paintings?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the public treat Maud?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What two things was Yeats adamant about remaining separate from each other?

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

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

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

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