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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which actor in the play in #97 brought a lawsuit against Joyce?
(a) Henry Carr.
(b) Avery Galloway.
(c) Sean Grady.
(d) Harold Morrison.

2. In what city did Joyce and Nora marry?
(a) Trieste.
(b) Paris.
(c) Dublin.
(d) London.

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

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

5. Who was the owner of the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore?
(a) Sylvia Beach.
(b) Anna Wintour.
(c) Madeline Krazinski.
(d) Margot Eliot.

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

7. During 1922, Joyce came up with the idea for ____________________.
(a) Finnegan's Wake.
(b) Walden Pond.
(c) The Remains of the Day.
(d) The Importance of Being Earnest.

8. The reactions of Joyce's friends to his first drafts of ULYSSES were ___________________.
(a) Spiteful.
(b) Disapproving.
(c) Mild.
(d) Embracing.

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

10. Who offered Joyce a generous royalty package for the publication of ULYSSES?
(a) Ava Monroe.
(b) Sylvia Beach.
(c) Emma Galloway.
(d) Madeline Anderson.

11. By 1915, how many years had the Joyces spent in Trieste?
(a) 4.
(b) 11.
(c) 20.
(d) 7.

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

13. Why did many of Joyce's students pay him but not take lessons?
(a) Just to please their teachers.
(b) Just to give him financial support.
(c) Just to satisfy their parents.
(d) Just as a prank.

14. Why did printers refuse to publish PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN?
(a) It was too large for their facilities.
(b) They did not think they could make any money on it.
(c) They would get in trouble with the censors.
(d) They thought it was not yet complete.

15. Who announced his engagement in 1929?
(a) Oscar.
(b) Stanislaus.
(c) Ezra.
(d) David.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author refused to subscribe to receive a copy of ULYSSES?

2. Who sent the Joyces some money to help them for a bit?

3. Lucia was self conscious about an odd squint and __________________.

4. What did Joyce once do at the end of a play to publicize a theater?

5. Who did Joyce befriend and join for long walks during this time ?

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