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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dramatis Personae: 1896-1902,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the most controversial part of Countess Cathleen?
(a) A Catholic priest is the villain.
(b) A man beats a woman.
(c) A woman sells her soul to the devil.
(d) An Irish man wants to be English.

2. What did the members of the Rhymer's Club do to support each other's work?
(a) Offered critiques.
(b) Bought copies of their books.
(c) Shared their own.
(d) Limited their own recitations.

3. Where did Yeats's sponsor live?
(a) Sligo.
(b) Dublin.
(c) London.
(d) Bedfield Park.

4. What caused Wilde to lose respect in his writing?
(a) His lunacy.
(b) His arrest.
(c) His bad reputation.
(d) His sickness.

5. What kind of college did Hyde attend?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who often shared Yeats's visions?

2. Why was Yeats happy that O'Leary was dead before Playboy of the Western World was presented?

3. Who did Yeats say was perfect in his writing?

4. Who died while Wilde was in prison?

5. What was the name of the poetry society Yeats formed with Rhys?

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