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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. In what city was Joyce born?
(a) London.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Rome.

2. Joyce searched for job vacancies at ______________________ throughout Europe.
(a) Restaurants.
(b) Travel agencies.
(c) Hospitals.
(d) Berlitz schools.

3. Who was Joyce's younger brother?
(a) Stanislaus.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Miguel.
(d) Paul.

4. What did Joyce do to earn extra money?
(a) Drove a cab.
(b) Cooked at a diner.
(c) Taught English.
(d) Sold men's clothes.

5. What did Joyce and Nora name their son?
(a) Giorgio.
(b) Sloan.
(c) Miguel.
(d) Phillippe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the publisher who agreed to print DUBLINERS?

2. Which of the following was NOT one of Joyce's activities in 1904?

3. School records show that Joyce was punished for ______________________.

4. Joyce was assured that he had a job waiting for him in which Italian city?

5. Where did Joyce and Nora live in 1904?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Joyce use family relationships in his work and why did Ellmann think Joyce did so?

2. What role did Stanislaus play in Joyce's life in 1905-1906?

3. What bad luck awaited Joyce when he went to Trieste for a position at a Berlitz school?

4. How did Joyce come to be in Pola in Yugoslavia and why did he eventually leave?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Joyce do when he still had money problems upon his return to Trieste?

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