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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Irish Dramatic Movement: A Lecture delivered to the Royal Academy of Sweden,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yeats want to do to make the Gaelic play a success?
(a) Have Lady Gregory give the Prologue.
(b) Hire a famous actress.
(c) Post advertisements.
(d) Make an apology about Countess Cathleen.

2. How was Maud treated by the public?
(a) Like a celebrity.
(b) They ignored her.
(c) They were rude to her.
(d) Like a felon.

3. What was Yeats told to avoid in his trance-like state?
(a) Big cities.
(b) Automobiles.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The woods.

4. Where did Yeats get his limited knowledge of Sweden?
(a) Books.
(b) Passengers on the boat.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) New from friends.

5. What did Yeats teach his sponsor about?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Cabbalistic symbols.
(c) Theosophism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Yeats's first play that was performed in England received?

2. What was MacGregor studying when Yeats met him?

3. What did Yeats see that visions affected?

4. What was Yeats struggling to write when he met Lady Gregory?

5. What did Lady Gregory want Yeats to stop writing?

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