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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Paris.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose husband committed suicide in 1929?
(a) Eileen's.
(b) Lucia's.
(c) Alice's.
(d) Harriet's.

2. What play did Joyce produce?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Little Women.
(c) Exiles.
(d) The Importance of Being Earnest.

3. Where did Joyce go when there was no position for him in Italy?
(a) Pola.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Lisbon.

4. Who helped Joyce attain grants during this period?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) Edgar Allen Poe.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

5. What was Joyce's favorite alcoholic beverage?
(a) Beer.
(b) Bourbon.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Absinthe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which surgery did Nora have in 1929?

2. Harriet Weaver and Ezra Pound told Joyce that Finnegan's Wake needed more ______________.

3. Why did Joyce have trouble finding housing in Trieste?

4. Which writer wrote to Joyce asking for some of Joyce's work to be included in an anthology?

5. Who did Joyce attempt to seduce when Nora was on vacation?

(see the answer key)

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