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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to eye problems, Joyce began to suffer with problems with his ___________________.
(a) Teeth.
(b) Wrists.
(c) Feet.
(d) Knees.

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

3. Joyce had major health issues with which part of his body?
(a) Eyes.
(b) Joints.
(c) Knees.
(d) Heart.

4. Which noted psychiatrist wrote a disparaging letter to Joyce?
(a) David A. Halperin.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Alfred Adler.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

5. With whom did the Joyce family share an apartment?
(a) Philipp Janach.
(b) Steven Donnely.
(c) Edward Sloane.
(d) Marcus Garibaldi.

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

7. Joyce had eye surgery in which city?
(a) Milan.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Zurich.
(d) Vienna.

8. What language did the Joyces speak among themselves?
(a) English.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Italian.

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

10. What did Giorgio name his son?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Marcus.
(c) Gregory.
(d) Wayne.

11. Who was the publisher who took on Ulysses in book form?
(a) Margaret Howth.
(b) Harriet Weaver.
(c) Cynthia Sloane.
(d) David McGuire.

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

13. In the United States, ULYSSES is pirated by a man named ____________________.
(a) Gerald Morrison.
(b) Samuel Roth.
(c) Edward Smith.
(d) William Cohen.

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

15. Who was the neighboring woman with whom Joyce had an affair in 1918?
(a) Estelle Grammercy.
(b) Celestine Morrow.
(c) Julia Galloway.
(d) Martha Fleischmann.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1915, how many years had the Joyces spent in Trieste?

2. In 1923, Giorgio got a job as a _________________.

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

4. In what year did Joyce marry Nora?

5. Which one of Joyce's works appeared in the magazine in #112?

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