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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Joyce searched for job vacancies at ______________________ throughout Europe.

2. Who was the publisher who agreed to print DUBLINERS?

3. Who was Joyce's younger brother?

4. How did Joyce choose to deal with his troubles?

5. What was one of Joyce's two main goals in 1909?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was Joyce born and who had a strong influence on him as a boy?

2. What was the nature of Joyce's work in the 1907-1909 period?

3. What bad luck awaited Joyce when he went to Trieste for a position at a Berlitz school?

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

5. Describe Joyce's personal and professional challenges when he returned to Paris in 1903.

6. What was Joyce like as a college student at University College in Dublin?

7. What two major forces occurred for Joyce during this disgruntled period in his life?

8. How did Joyce's professional relationship with Yeats begin?

9. Describe Joyce's father, John's, young life in Ireland.

10. What type of writing did Joyce find interesting at this time and which author even sent Joyce a letter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Joyce was befriended by some of the most famous literary talents in the world such as Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats. Select one of Joyce's literary friends and compare and contrast his/her life and work to Joyce's.

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Stanislaus Joyce. What did he look like? What were his positive personality traits? What were some of his negative characteristics? What were his hopes and fears? What were his primary motivations during his life?

Essay Topic 3

Substance abuse seemed to be an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive was the abuse? Why did it have such a prevalent place in Joyce's life? How did it affect him? How did it affect those impacted by Joyce's abuse? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character.

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