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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 say got him interested in studying what he taught his sponsor?

2. Who wrote a short story about a man questioning God about life?

3. What was the boy that Yeats cured sick with?

4. What did Yeats once predict about his grandfather?

5. What were Johnson's religious beliefs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Yeats heal the boy with smallpox?

2. What helped Yeats find his own voice?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What did Yeats think of his first seance?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Personal identity was one of the main themes in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how did its inclusion in the biography change the style of the narration?

Essay Topic 3

The people in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select four of these people and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the others around them.

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