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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 was Moore's occupation?

2. What did Yeats talk about at the Royal Academy of Sweden?

3. What season did Yeats like to spend with Lady Gregory?

4. What did Yeats want to do to make the Gaelic play a success?

5. What did Synge accept just before he died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led Yeats to spend so much time with Lady Gregory?

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

3. What did Lady Gregory do for Yeats?

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

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

6. What did Yeats want to ask of Synge before his death, and why didn't he?

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

8. What did Moore do that irritated Yeats most of all?

9. How did the public treat Maud?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Diversity was a major theme in this book as many different lifestyles and ranks in society were involved. How was this theme shown in this book, and why do you think the author felt it was so important?

Essay Topic 2

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Yeats have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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