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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 made Taylor so close to insane?

2. Where was Playboy of the Western World presented?

3. What did the members of the Rhymer's Club do to support each other's work?

4. What was Johnson's biggest vice?

5. How did Davidson die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Yeats view Bernard Shaw after getting to know him?

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

3. How did Hyde and O'Grady help to promote Irish literature?

4. What did Yeats think caused the poets he knew to be so tragic?

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

6. How did Yeats meet Dowden, and what did Dowden teach Yeats?

7. What did Yeats think of his first seance?

8. How did the theosophists feel about Mr. Russel?

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

10. Who lived across the street from Yeats when his family moved to Bedfield Park?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Honor was something that many of the main people were striving for in this book. Who was most affected by this pursuit, and how did it change the course of Yeats's life?

Essay Topic 2

Yeats and Synge are two very similar people, and yet they have some very notable and important differences. Using the text to cite some support, write a compare/contrast essay about these two authors.

Essay Topic 3

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Yeats have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

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