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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Estrangement: Extracts from a Diary Kept in 1909,.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the president of the Literary Society?
(a) Henley.
(b) MacGregor.
(c) Oscar Wilde.
(d) O'Leary.

3. What was the only thing Yeats's grandmother ever punished him for?
(a) Swearing in front of a girl.
(b) Taking the Lord's name in vain.
(c) Breaking a dish.
(d) Having a snack too close to bedtime.

4. What strange thing did Johnson do when he met Yeats?
(a) Quote fantasy conversations.
(b) Pretend to be God.
(c) Sing songs in the midle of conversations.
(d) Foretell the future.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Yeats afraid to ask his best friend permission for something he wanted to do?

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

3. What helped Yeats break free from imitating his father's style?

4. What did Yeats's sponsor hate talking about?

5. What did Yeats's mother think people in London indulged too much in?

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