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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's father do to get Yeats to improve his studies after moving to Dublin?

2. What did Yeats teach his sponsor about?

3. What did Yeats compare the phases of literature to?

4. What did Yeats once predict about his grandfather?

5. What did many of Wilde's friends encourage him to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Morris remind Yeats of, and what did Morris teach Yeats?

2. How were Yeats's grandfathers different in their personalities?

3. Why did Wilde refuse to run away when he had the chance?

4. How did Yeats feel about the people who joined his poetry club?

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

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

7. How did Yeats feel when he learned more about his spiritual side?

8. How did Yeats heal the boy with smallpox?

9. What did Yeats realize while watching his daughter when he was an older man?

10. Who did Yeats get to be his sponsor, and what kind of man was he?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which person did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this person change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

Yeats endures many different trials before the end of the book. What are some of these trials and what lessons does he learn through these experiences?

Essay Topic 3

Freedom was a crucial theme and symbol in this book. How was this theme presented, and how did its place in this plot affect the main people in Yeats's life?

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