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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following facts does Carr announce is not open to correction at the end of his monologue?
(a) His politics.
(b) His name.
(c) His prowess as a lover.
(d) His height.

2. The Zimmerwaldists believe the workers of the world need to oppose what?
(a) The Communists.
(b) Tariffs.
(c) The war.
(d) Capitalist exploitation.

3. To what symbol of nonviolence does Carr compare Switzerland in his monologue?
(a) A plowshare.
(b) A white flag.
(c) An olive branch.
(d) A dove.

4. How does Tzara say Cecily is studying the great poets?
(a) In order of importance.
(b) Alphabetically.
(c) Chronologically.
(d) Sporadically.

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

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

7. How does the style of dialogue change as the new characters enter in this section?
(a) Everyone speaks in limericks.
(b) Everyone speaks in pantomime.
(c) Everyone speaks in French.
(d) Everyone speaks only with the word "dada".

8. What does the Dada artist entitle the work that consists of his name in the snow?
(a) The Alps.
(b) Journey's End.
(c) Fountain.
(d) Heaven.

9. Citing Karl Marx in this section, Bennett states that there is no way for a country to transition seamlessly from autocracy to what?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Utopia.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Concensus.

10. Which of the following figures is not among the attendees Carr jokingly names for the Social Democrats for Civil War in Europe meeting?
(a) A police spy.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Lenin's wife.
(d) Trotsky.

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

12. According to Tzara, what is out of fashion since the war?
(a) Causality.
(b) Lovemaking.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Heaven.

13. What "modish novelty" does Carr disapprove of in Bennett (14)?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Amateur theatrics.
(c) Reading.
(d) Free association.

14. Upon what does Tzara announce defiantly that he spits?
(a) The classics.
(b) Joyce's novel.
(c) Religion.
(d) Switzerland.

15. Where was Carr when he heard about the offset of the First World War?
(a) Saville Row.
(b) Burbank.
(c) Paris.
(d) Dublin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what two locations does the play take place?

3. According to Carr, what was always apparent in Joyce's personality?

4. What two characters believe Tzara's first name is Jack?

5. From what Irish town does Carr announce James Joyce did not hale?

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