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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 travel to Stockholm?

2. What season did Yeats like to spend with Lady Gregory?

3. What did Yeats say his work made him feel?

4. What did Synge say helped him reach his acceptance?

5. What did Yeats say happened when people lacked the depth of a writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Yeats usually feeling when he wrote in his diaries?

2. What did Yeats say the duty of the writer was?

3. What was Yeats told while in a trance?

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

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

6. What did Yeats say was ruining the Ireland he loved?

7. What two things was Yeats adamant about remaining separate from each other?

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

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

10. What was Yeats thinking about while he was being presented to the Royal Family?

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

Power and Greed were two common themes in this book. Where did they appear, and how do they differ in their manifestations?

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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