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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What decision by Russia's provincial government enrages the Soviets in this section?
(a) It stays involved in the war.
(b) It arrests the Bolshevik leadership.
(c) It gives amnesty to the czar and his family.
(d) It signs a nonaggression treaty with Serbia.

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

3. What precious stone is in Carr's preferred studs?
(a) Saphire.
(b) Opal.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Emerald.

4. Which character shushes the other characters onstage in the first scene of the play?
(a) Tzara.
(b) Nadya.
(c) Cecily.
(d) Joyce.

5. In what year does Carr recall he was acquainted with Joyce, Lenin, and Tzara?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1903.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following locations is not mentioned by Carr as he describes the horrors of the First World War?

2. Which of the following figures is not among the attendees Carr jokingly names for the Social Democrats for Civil War in Europe meeting?

3. What objects are inadvertently interposed int he beginning of the play?

4. What "modish novelty" does Carr disapprove of in Bennett (14)?

5. What term for Germans is Carr unfamiliar with before entering the war?

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