Autobiographies Test | Final Test - Easy

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Autobiographies Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Yeats win the Nobel Prize?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1893.

2. What did some of Yeats's friends all have dreams of?
(a) The fall of the English government.
(b) War planes over head.
(c) Synge's death.
(d) Yeats's wedding.

3. How did Yeats think a writer should learn to write about different kinds of people?
(a) Observe different kinds of people.
(b) Write for more than one group of people.
(c) Live with different kinds of people.
(d) Get critiques from different kinds of people.

4. What did Yeats say was threatening the best parts of Ireland?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Unintelligence.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Prejudice.

5. Where was the Nobel Prize reception held?
(a) The docks.
(b) A fancy hotel.
(c) The National Convention Center.
(d) The Royal Palace.

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

7. What was Yeats struggling to write when he met Lady Gregory?
(a) A play.
(b) A poem.
(c) A novel.
(d) A short story.

8. What did Lady Gregory help Yeats become?
(a) Disciplined.
(b) Calm.
(c) Patient.
(d) Healthy.

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

10. What country did Davitt want to protect?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Britain.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Wales.

11. What was the man sitting by Yeats at the reception so worried about?
(a) Being laughed at.
(b) Returning home.
(c) Making a good impression.
(d) Offending the royals.

12. Who did Yeats think deserved his Nobel Prize more than himself?
(a) Synge.
(b) Melville.
(c) Moore.
(d) Mann.

13. What did Yeats say the writer had many of?
(a) Personalities.
(b) Masks.
(c) Friends.
(d) Homes.

14. What did Yeats and Kady Gregory do to change the theater rule in Ireland?
(a) Wrote letters.
(b) Made personal visits.
(c) Held rallies.
(d) Signed petitions.

15. What does Yeats say most people find in poetry?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Desire.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Hidden thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Yeats ask to write a Gaelic play?

2. What kind of person did Yeats say the public did not understand about artists?

3. What did Moore do that made Yeats incredibly upset?

4. What did Yeats say the public lacked?

5. Where did Yeats write about how his work made him feel?

(see the answer keys)

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