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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 Mary Battle's occupation?
(a) Fortune teller.
(b) Artist.
(c) Publisher.
(d) Servant.

2. Who did Yeats live with when he started the National Literary Society?
(a) Henley.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) MacGregor.
(d) O'Leary.

3. What caused Johnson to be poor and destitute?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Insanity.
(d) Opium.

4. Why did the starving artist refuse the job that Yeats found for her?
(a) It would not be true to her art.
(b) There were too many restrictions.
(c) It was too far from her home.
(d) She did not like her boss.

5. Who did Yeats ask to write a Gaelic play?
(a) Hyde.
(b) Davitt.
(c) Martyn.
(d) Maud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did MacGregor teach Yeats about?

2. Who did Yeats live with while in London?

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

4. What did Yeats see that visions affected?

5. What kind of guests did Lady Gregory like to have visit her house?

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