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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the theater that Joyce established?
(a) The Volta.
(b) The Standard.
(c) The Guild.
(d) The Phoenix.

2. Who was the favorite child in the Joyce family?
(a) George.
(b) Charles.
(c) Stanislaus.
(d) James.

3. Joyce is a name of ________________ origin.
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) German.
(d) Irish.

4. What was the name of the newspaper Joyce wanted to start?
(a) The Shamrock.
(b) The Goblin.
(c) The Dubliner.
(d) The Standard.

5. What did Joyce and Nora name their new daughter?
(a) Celestine.
(b) Perpetua.
(c) Lucia.
(d) Maria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Joyce's boss in the city in #41?

2. What did Joyce and Nora name their son?

3. Joyce was working on stories that would become which book?

4. Joyce had a falling out with his old friend and replaced him with ____________________.

5. Which of the following was NOT true about Joyce as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Joyce's father, John's, young life in Ireland.

2. What difficulties did Joyce encounter when trying to enroll in classes in Paris in 1902-1903?

3. What two major forces occurred for Joyce during this disgruntled period in his life?

4. What was always an important source of inspiration for Joyce's writing?

5. Describe the salient points of Ellmann's explanation of Joyce's writing of "The Dead".

6. When was Joyce born and who had a strong influence on him as a boy?

7. What was the nature of Joyce's work in the 1907-1909 period?

8. What was the source of a major break between Joyce and Nora in 1909 and what happened after he and Nora reconciled?

9. How did Joyce's professional relationship with Yeats begin?

10. Describe the difficult time Joyce had in Rome while working at the bank.

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