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

2. What does Lucia do that prompted the Joyces to finally send Lucia to an asylum?
(a) She boarded herself up in her room.
(b) She ran naked out of the house.
(c) She ate nasturtiums.
(d) She threw a chair at her mother.

3. To what work did Joyce devote himself in 1915?
(a) Dubliners.
(b) Chamber Music.
(c) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(d) Ulysses.

4. Who continued to support Joyce in the 1922-1923 period?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Ezra Pound.
(c) Harriet Weaver.
(d) William Yeats.

5. Harriet Weaver and Ezra Pound told Joyce that Finnegan's Wake needed more ______________.
(a) Depth.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Gloss.
(d) Characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of Joyce's works appeared in the magazine in #112?

2. How much money did Mrs. Harold McCormick deposit into Joyce's account?

3. In the United States, ULYSSES is pirated by a man named ____________________.

4. Who was Valery Larbaud?

5. What pursuit did Giorgio enjoy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What surgeries did Joyce require in 1923?

4. What play did Joyce produce and what problem did he have with the lead actor?

5. How did Ezra Pound help Joyce during this period of his life?

6. How long had the Joyces been in Trieste in 1915 and what was Joyce's life like at this point?

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

8. What was Joyce's demeanor upon his move to Paris and what help did he continue to receive from friends?

9. What health problems did Joyce have to manage during this time?

10. How did Joyce continue to use his family as inspiration for his work?

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