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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 did Yeats say his work made him feel?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Entanglement.
(c) Estrangement.
(d) Exasperations.

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

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

4. What did Yeats compare poetry to?
(a) A country.
(b) A young person in love.
(c) A religion.
(d) A war with words.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats say the writer had many of?

2. What two things did Yeats say were separate entities?

3. How did Yeats think a writer should learn to write about different kinds of people?

4. What did some of Yeats's friends all have dreams of?

5. Where was the Nobel Prize reception held?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Yeats say the duty of the writer was?

2. What did Yeats say was the main difference between religion and spirituality?

3. What did Yeats say was ruining the Ireland he loved?

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

5. Who was hired to write a Gaelic play for the theater, and how did Yeats view this writer?

6. What was Synge's last play, and how was it received?

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

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

9. What two things was Yeats adamant about remaining separate from each other?

10. What was so controversial about Countess Cathleen?

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