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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Paris.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Joyce consider to be life's most important relationship?
(a) Between brothers.
(b) Between mother and child.
(c) Between husband and wife.
(d) Between father and son.

2. What word did the publisher have Joyce remove from DUBLINERS?
(a) Bloody.
(b) Christ.
(c) Pregnant.
(d) Fornicate.

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

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

5. 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) Walked the aisles with an advertising sandwich board.
(d) Stood up and declared the miraculous restoration of his eyesight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Joyce had eye surgery in which city?

2. Who was the owner of the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore?

3. What function did Nora have in one of Joyce's dramatic productions?

4. Who saved Joyce's draft of PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN when he tossed it into the fire?

5. What did Joyce forbid Nora to wear on the trip in #68?

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