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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Yeats teach his sponsor about?
(a) Theosophism.
(b) Cabbalistic symbols.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Socialism.
2. What did MacGregor say could trigger thoughts?
(a) Smells.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Sounds.
(d) Winds.
3. Where did Yeats get the starving artist a job?
(a) An art school.
(b) A grocery store.
(c) A hospital.
(d) An advertising company.
4. Where did the Yeats family move after they lived in Dublin?
(a) Mansfield Place.
(b) Bedfield Park.
(c) Canterville Chase.
(d) Fairfax Landing.
5. What would Yeats and his sponsor do while they discussed what Yeats taught him?
(a) Drink in a tavern.
(b) Fish in the stream.
(c) Sit in chairs.
(d) Take long walks.
6. What did the members of the Rhymer's Club do to support each other's work?
(a) Bought copies of their books.
(b) Offered critiques.
(c) Limited their own recitations.
(d) Shared their own.
7. What caused some of Yeats's family members to withdraw from his visits?
(a) His addiction to alcohol.
(b) His reputation.
(c) His beliefs.
(d) His rude nature.
8. What did Yeats compare the phases of literature to?
(a) The moon.
(b) A growing child.
(c) The seasons in a year.
(d) The age of man.
9. How did Yeats feel as he learned more about his spiritual psyche?
(a) Confused.
(b) Amazed.
(c) Scared.
(d) Interested.
10. Whose writings did Ellis introduce Yeats to?
(a) Donne.
(b) Longfellow.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Blake.
11. Who was president of the Young Ireland Society?
(a) Donnaghy.
(b) Callaghan.
(c) O'Malley.
(d) O'Leary.
12. What did the general's nephew ask to not be served during a visit?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Pork.
(c) Beef.
(d) Fish.
13. What did Yeats think his writing was full of when he met MacGregor?
(a) Cliches.
(b) Logical flaws.
(c) Generalizations.
(d) Copied styles.
14. Where did Yeats's sponsor live?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Bedfield Park.
(c) London.
(d) Sligo.
15. What did Yeats once predict about his grandfather?
(a) He would wear a strange hat.
(b) He would be in a shipwreck.
(c) He would lose his business.
(d) He would cut his hand.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Yeats say was perfect in his writing?
2. Where was Playboy of the Western World presented?
3. What did Yeats have visions of?
4. What happened to make Yeats interested in religion?
5. What was Yeats's grandfather's occupation?
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