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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what Irish town does Carr announce James Joyce did not hale?
(a) Cork.
(b) Galway.
(c) Dublin
(d) Limerick.

2. What objects are inadvertently interposed int he beginning of the play?
(a) Two folders.
(b) Two hats.
(c) Two books.
(d) Two passports.

3. What masterwork is Joyce in the process of write when he and Carr are acquainted?
(a) Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.
(b) The Dubliners.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Finnegan's Wake.

4. What news does Nadya deliver to Lenin in the beginning of the play?
(a) The czar has abdicated.
(b) Trotsky has been exiled from Russia.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) The revolution has begun in St. Petersburg.

5. From what object is Tzara drawing slips of paper in the beginning of the play?
(a) His jacket.
(b) A cub.
(c) A hat.
(d) A folder.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which character shushes the other characters onstage in the first scene of the play?

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

4. In what year does Carr recall he was acquainted with Joyce, Lenin, and Tzara?

5. Whose dropped writings does Joyce pick up in the first scene of the play?

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