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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. What issue still continued to haunt Joyce in 1915?
(a) Relationship problems.
(b) Financial problems.
(c) Legal problems.
(d) Health problems.

2. In 1915, Joyce tried to publish _______________________ as a book rather than in excerpts.
(a) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Chamber Music.
(d) Dubliners.

3. Which of the following was NOT an illness suffered by Joyce?
(a) Tonsilitis.
(b) Glaucoma.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Synechia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Giorgio name his son?

2. Which noted psychiatrist wrote a disparaging letter to Joyce?

3. Who announced his engagement in 1929?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What health problems plagued Joyce during this period and what new work did he envision?

3. How was ULYSSES received in the 1922-1923 time period?

4. Who was the French writer introduced to Joyce in the 1921-1922 period?

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

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

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

8. Describe Joyce's interactions with his family in the 1929-1932 timeframe.

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

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

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