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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By his own estimation, what makes Tzara an artist?
(a) He says he is.
(b) He is Romanian.
(c) He creates beauty.
(d) He is innately creative.

2. In describing his trenches experience in this section, Carr says he ruined several what?
(a) Medals.
(b) Rifles.
(c) Pairs of trousers.
(d) First edition Trollopes.

3. What term for Germans is Carr unfamiliar with before entering the war?
(a) Kraut.
(b) Boche.
(c) Hun.
(d) Saxon.

4. According to Carr, what was always apparent in Joyce's personality?
(a) His Irishness.
(b) His shyness.
(c) His profligacy.
(d) His genius.

5. Whose poetry does Tzara attempt the dismember for Gwendolen in this section?
(a) Shakespeare's.
(b) Milton's.
(c) Donne's.
(d) Petrarch's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound effect does Stoppard recommend to accompany time slips in the play?

2. What type of poem does Lenin declaim at the end of the first scene of the play?

3. As what does Carr theorize that Tzara is trying to pass?

4. During his introduction in the beginning of this section, what is the only thing that Carr says he knows of Joyce?

5. According to Carr in this section, what activity was not encouraged or expressly forbidden in the British Consular Service?

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