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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats think of most of the people who joined his poetry society?

2. Who was the president of the Literary Society?

3. Where was Rhys from?

4. What did Yeats's father do to get Yeats to improve his studies after moving to Dublin?

5. Where did Yeats like to sleep at night while in Dublin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Yeats think of his first seance?

2. How did Mary Battle display her second sight before Yeats came to live at the house?

3. What was the story an old acquaintance told Yeats while he was in Paris?

4. Why did Yeats dream of building a theater?

5. What helped Yeats find his own voice?

6. What was MacGregor obsessed with when he lived in Paris?

7. What special gift did Russel have that he used to help other people?

8. How was Yeats affected by his friendship with O'Leary?

9. How did Yeats feel when he started seeing a medium to help him discover his character?

10. How did Yeats's opinion of Russel change when he saw him with the theosophists?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 2

What were some of the forms of foreshadowing used in this book, and how did those moments affect the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

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