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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 subject was the Rhymer's club fixated on?

2. What did Yeats's sponsor hate talking about?

3. What was Henley's occupation?

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

5. What did Yeats think every man had the ability to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Yeats start his interest in spiritual things?

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

3. What kind of work was considered for sponsorship in the National Literary Society?

4. What happened when Yeats fell in love for the first time?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect the people involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 2

Fear is a common theme in this book that is presented a number of times by a number of people. What are some of these instances, and how does fear affect the people included in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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