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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yeats's father do to get Yeats to improve his studies after moving to Dublin?

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

3. What playwright did Yeats enjoy when he returned to Bedford Park?

4. What did Yeats have visions of?

5. Why did Yeats's father move to England?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Hyde and O'Grady help to promote Irish literature?

2. How did Yeats feel when he started seeing a medium to help him discover his character?

3. What kind of work was considered for sponsorship in the National Literary Society?

4. Who did Morris remind Yeats of, and what did Morris teach Yeats?

5. What special gift did Russel have that he used to help other people?

6. What did Henley do to help Yeats find his identity?

7. What did Yeats think of his first seance?

8. How did Yeats's opinion of Russel change when he saw him with the theosophists?

9. How did Mary Battle display her second sight before Yeats came to live at the house?

10. What was the story an old acquaintance told Yeats while he was in Paris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 3

Yeats and Synge are two very similar people, and yet they have some very notable and important differences. Using the text to cite some support, write a compare/contrast essay about these two authors.

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