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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. Which writer wrote to Joyce asking for some of Joyce's work to be included in an anthology?
(a) William Yeats.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Ezra Pound.
(d) Henry David Thoreau.

2. Where did Joyce go to further his studies?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Madrid.

3. How many children did Joyce's parents have?
(a) 14.
(b) 7.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

4. What religion did the Joyce family practice?
(a) Episcopalian.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Catholicism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Joyces move when World War I broke out?

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

3. Which of Joyce's sisters came to live with him in Trieste?

4. In 1912 Joyce sent Nora and Lucia on a trip to __________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Joyce like as a young child in school and for what was he frequently punished?

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

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

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

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 Joyce's relationship like with his father and how many siblings did Joyce have?

8. What did Ellmann think were some of the inspirations for Joyce's novel ULYSSES?

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

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

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