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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucia do that prompted the Joyces to finally send Lucia to an asylum?

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

3. What job did Joyce do when the family returned to Trieste in 1919?

4. In what city did Joyce and Nora marry?

5. What grant did Joyce receive that helped the family financially for awhile?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were ULYSSES and EXILES received differently at this point in time?

2. What was the impetus that pushed Joyce to finally marry Nora?

3. What did Joyce have to do when a man in the U.S. pirated ULYSSES?

4. Who agrees to publish Joyce's EXILES and ULYSSES in spite of mediocre reviews by Joyce's fellow writers?

5. What efforts did Joyce make during this period to get some of his work published?

6. What surgeries did Joyce require in 1923?

7. Where did Joyce move his family after Harriet Weaver sent some money?

8. With whom did Joyce have an affair in 1918?

9. How was ULYSSES prepared for publication and who refused to read it?

10. Where did Joyce spend much of his time in the 1916-1918 period?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It has been said that James may have suffered from mental illness in his lifetime, thus his propensity for creating brilliant work. Explain whether or not you think any mental illness shaped Joyce's life and work.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the role of Joyce's family in his life. What did it mean for each of the main characters? How did the family evolve in its support of each other? How typical was this family comapred to most Irish families living during the early-20th century?

Essay Topic 3

Substance abuse seemed to be an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive was the abuse? Why did it have such a prevalent place in Joyce's life? How did it affect him? How did it affect those impacted by Joyce's abuse? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character.

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