View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yeats's mother think people in London indulged too much in?
(a) Swearing.
(b) Voicing their opinions.
(c) Public affection.
(d) Alcohol.

2. What was the boy that Yeats cured sick with?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Diptheria.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Small pox.

3. Where did Yeats get the starving artist a job?
(a) An art school.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) An advertising company.

4. What did Yeats think every man had the ability to do?
(a) Write.
(b) Express himself.
(c) Have visions.
(d) Think philosophically.

5. What did Yeats's sponsor hate talking about?
(a) Traditional roles.
(b) Politics.
(c) Literature.
(d) Religion.

6. What would Yeats and his sponsor do while they discussed what Yeats taught him?
(a) Take long walks.
(b) Sit in chairs.
(c) Fish in the stream.
(d) Drink in a tavern.

7. Who did Yeats say was perfect in his writing?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Rudyard Kipling.
(d) Faulkner.

8. What did Yeats often think of his father's opinion?
(a) It was too extreme.
(b) It was wrong.
(c) It was not logical.
(d) It was exactly right.

9. Whose writings did Ellis introduce Yeats to?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Donne.
(c) Longfellow.
(d) Blake.

10. Where did Yeats's sponsor live?
(a) Sligo.
(b) London.
(c) Bedfield Park.
(d) Dublin.

11. What was the name of the poetry society Yeats formed with Rhys?
(a) The Poet's Corner.
(b) The Poetry Circuit.
(c) The Literary Works Guild.
(d) The Rhymer's Club.

12. Why was Yeats happy that O'Leary was dead before Playboy of the Western World was presented?
(a) He would have taken credit for it.
(b) He would have hated it.
(c) He would have tried to change it.
(d) He would have been obessed with it.

13. What did Yeats's fellow poets use to analyze their poetry?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Logic.
(d) Description.

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

15. How did Davidson die?
(a) He was shot by a burglar.
(b) He caught Consumption.
(c) He drowned himself.
(d) He hung himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats think of most of the people who joined his poetry society?

2. What did the members of the Rhymer's Club do to support each other's work?

3. What caused Wilde to lose respect in his writing?

4. What were Johnson's religious beliefs?

5. What did Yeats like to do most when he visited his grandparents?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 390 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample