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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What season did Yeats like to spend with Lady Gregory?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

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

3. Which part of education did Yeats think was insufficient?
(a) Literature.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) History.
(d) Grammar.

4. What was the most controversial part of Countess Cathleen?
(a) A man beats a woman.
(b) A Catholic priest is the villain.
(c) An Irish man wants to be English.
(d) A woman sells her soul to the devil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What impressed Yeats about the person who wrote a Gaelic play for him?

2. What was Synge's final play?

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

4. What did Yeats say was threatening the best parts of Ireland?

5. Which theater showed Synge's last play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Yeats thinking about while he was being presented to the Royal Family?

2. How did Moore act when the theater ran into financial problems?

3. What did Yeats do to make the Gaelic play a success, and how was this plan almost ruined?

4. What did the Nobel winners do after receiving their awards, and why?

5. How did the public treat Maud?

6. How did Yeats feel when he found out he was being considered for the Nobel Prize of Literature?

7. How did Yeats feel about literature education?

8. What happened when Yeats got to Stockholm, and how did he feel about this?

9. What kind of speeches did Maud give when Yeats accompanied her?

10. How did Synge feel about his impending death, and how was this viewed by his friends?

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