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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. How did Yeats feel about his writing after his first book was published?

2. What did Lady Gregory help Yeats become?

3. What did Lady Gregory want Yeats to stop writing?

4. What does Yeats say most people find in poetry?

5. Which of the following was NOT a gift given to Yeats by Lady Gregory?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Yeats feel about literature education?

2. What did Yeats want to ask of Synge before his death, and why didn't he?

3. How did Synge feel about his impending death, and how was this viewed by his friends?

4. How did Yeats feel when he found out he was being considered for the Nobel Prize of Literature?

5. How did the public treat Maud?

6. What did the Nobel winners do after receiving their awards, and why?

7. What did Yeats say was the main difference between religion and spirituality?

8. What did Yeats write about in his letters to Lady Gregory?

9. What did Yeats do to make the Gaelic play a success, and how was this plan almost ruined?

10. What led Yeats to spend so much time with Lady Gregory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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