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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1915, how many years had the Joyces spent in Trieste?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 20.

2. In what year did Joyce marry Nora?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1931.

3. Which actor in the play in #97 brought a lawsuit against Joyce?
(a) Sean Grady.
(b) Avery Galloway.
(c) Henry Carr.
(d) Harold Morrison.

4. Who did Joyce determine should write his biography?
(a) Henry Miller.
(b) William Yeats.
(c) Ezra Pound.
(d) Herbert Gorman.

5. The reactions of Joyce's friends to his first drafts of ULYSSES were ___________________.
(a) Mild.
(b) Embracing.
(c) Disapproving.
(d) Spiteful.

6. Who continued to support Joyce in the 1922-1923 period?
(a) William Yeats.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Ezra Pound.
(d) Harriet Weaver.

7. ULYSSES was translated into which language in 1929?
(a) Dutch.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Chinese.

8. Harriet Weaver and Ezra Pound told Joyce that Finnegan's Wake needed more ______________.
(a) Gloss.
(b) Depth.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Characters.

9. What was Charlotte Sauermann's profession?
(a) Soprano.
(b) Editor.
(c) Chef.
(d) Dramatist.

10. How many people showed up for the first reading of ULYSSES?
(a) 30.
(b) 250.
(c) 20.
(d) 500.

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

12. In 1915, Joyce tried to publish _______________________ as a book rather than in excerpts.
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Dubliners.
(c) Chamber Music.
(d) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

13. Who did Joyce attempt to seduce when Nora was on vacation?
(a) The nanny.
(b) His physician.
(c) His attorney.
(d) The maid.

14. Which friend of Joyce's helped him produce a play?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Gregor.
(c) Sykes.
(d) Eliot.

15. What did Joyce once do at the end of a play to publicize a theater?
(a) Performed a song and dance on stage.
(b) Distributed flyers.
(c) Stood up and declared the miraculous restoration of his eyesight.
(d) Walked the aisles with an advertising sandwich board.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT an illness suffered by Joyce?

2. Who did Giorgio marry?

3. With whom did the Joyce family share an apartment?

4. Why did many of Joyce's students pay him but not take lessons?

5. Who announced his engagement in 1929?

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