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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bounty of Sweden,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hyde promote Irish literature?
(a) He attended all assemblies for Irish work.
(b) He translated old work.
(c) He wrote about Irish legends.
(d) He went on campaigns.

2. What did Yeats talk about at the Royal Academy of Sweden?
(a) English History.
(b) Irish Theater.
(c) His childhood.
(d) His feelings about literature.

3. What was Yeats humbled by when he got to Stockholm?
(a) He was recognized.
(b) He saw a poster of himself.
(c) He saw the man who lost the award.
(d) He heard one of his poems being quoted.

4. What did the theosophists talk about?
(a) Politics.
(b) Literature.
(c) Religion.
(d) Art.

5. What did most of the theaters in Ireland perform plays for?
(a) Charity.
(b) Food and other trade goods.
(c) High charges.
(d) Donations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who almost ruined Yeats's plan to make the Gaelic play a success?

2. What subject was the Rhymer's club fixated on?

3. Why did the starving artist refuse the job that Yeats found for her?

4. How did most of Synge's friends view his acceptance?

5. What year did Yeats win the Nobel Prize?

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