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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How did Yeats feel when he was around Lady Gregory?
(a) Arrogant.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Relaxed.
(d) Gallant.
2. What did Yeats and Kady Gregory do to change the theater rule in Ireland?
(a) Held rallies.
(b) Wrote letters.
(c) Signed petitions.
(d) Made personal visits.
3. Who was being considered for the Nobel Prize along with Yeats?
(a) Herr Man.
(b) Shaw.
(c) Kipling.
(d) Melville.
4. What did Yeats want to ask his best friend permission to do?
(a) Help with his poetry.
(b) Read his journal.
(c) Finish his play.
(d) Court his daughter.
5. What did some of Yeats's friends all have dreams of?
(a) War planes over head.
(b) Yeats's wedding.
(c) Synge's death.
(d) The fall of the English government.
6. What impressed Yeats about the person who wrote a Gaelic play for him?
(a) They were fast and professional.
(b) Their plot line was so intricate.
(c) They wrote all day long.
(d) They were open to critiques.
7. Who almost ruined Yeats's plan to make the Gaelic play a success?
(a) Lady Gregory.
(b) Maud.
(c) Martyn.
(d) Moore.
8. What does Yeats say most people find in poetry?
(a) Desire.
(b) Hidden thoughts.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Spirituality.
9. Why was Yeats afraid to ask his best friend permission for something he wanted to do?
(a) He did not want to reveal the thoughts of death.
(b) He did not want to make him worry needlessly.
(c) He did not want to hurt his feelings.
(d) He knew he would be denied.
10. How did Yeats travel to Stockholm?
(a) Boat.
(b) Train.
(c) Plane.
(d) Bus.
11. What did Synge say helped him reach his acceptance?
(a) Letters from his daughter.
(b) The publication of his book.
(c) The marriage of his son.
(d) Visions from a friend.
12. What did Moore and Yeats do when they worked on plays together?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Drink.
(c) Collaborate.
(d) Fight.
13. What did most of the theaters in Ireland perform plays for?
(a) Food and other trade goods.
(b) Charity.
(c) High charges.
(d) Donations.
14. What was Maud's occupation?
(a) Activist.
(b) Poet.
(c) Artist.
(d) Actress.
15. Why was Yeats hesitant to put Synge's last play on the stage?
(a) He was dealing with his grief.
(b) He was intimidated by its depth.
(c) It was not finished.
(d) It was personal to him.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did a man tell Yeats when he was in a trance?
2. How did Yeats feel when Synge's death went unnoticed?
3. What word did Yeats use to describe Maud?
4. What did Yeats say the public lacked?
5. What two things did Yeats say were separate entities?
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