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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only driving force of war, according to Tzara?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Ego.
(c) Bloodlust.
(d) Religion.

2. Which of the following is not a title that Joyce attaches to Odysseus in this section?
(a) Lover.
(b) Politician.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Pacifist.

3. According to Tzara, Huelsenbeck wanted to connect Dadaism to what other movement?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Anarchism.
(d) Film.

4. When he finally explodes at Joyce, into what does Tzara say the writer has turned literature?
(a) Nonsense.
(b) A political tool.
(c) A religion.
(d) Trash.

5. In what two locations does the play take place?
(a) A train station and a room.
(b) A theatre and a train station.
(c) A library and a theatre.
(d) A room and a library.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Carr end up giving Joyce in this section?

2. According to the Bolsheviks, how long should the bourgeois-capitalist democracy last in Russia?

3. To what does Carr compare being an artist in his rebuttal to Tzara?

4. To what object does Carr liken the First World War as he describes Switzerland at the end of his monologue?

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

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