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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what country were Joyce and his wife when the war started?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Belgium.
(c) France.
(d) Austro-Hungary.

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

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 type of poem does Lenin declaim at the end of the first scene of the play?
(a) A limerick.
(b) A haiku.
(c) A sonnet.
(d) A heroic verse.

5. In this section, Carr and Tzara cannot decide between which two countries as to which they are defending?
(a) Belguim and Serbia.
(b) France and Germany.
(c) Serbia and France.
(d) Germany and Belgium.

6. Which of the following locations is not mentioned by Carr as he describes the horrors of the First World War?
(a) Alsace.
(b) Montenegro,
(c) Moscow.
(d) Serbia.

7. What detail of the Russian Revolution is not mentioned by Bennett in this section?
(a) The ascension of the Kerensky government.
(b) The murder of the royal family.
(c) The appropriation of the term Soviet.
(d) The abdication of the czar.

8. Due to a clerical error on his birth certificate, what if James Joyce's legal middle name?
(a) Maria.
(b) Clara.
(c) Patricia.
(d) Augusta.

9. In this section Carr comments that is entirely reasonable for the exploited classes of Russia to turn against whom?
(a) The government.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Their servants.
(d) Their spouses.

10. What is the topic of Lenin's new book?
(a) Imperialism.
(b) The Armenian genocide.
(c) The war.
(d) The free market.

11. What two items are mentioned several times in this section as part of a time slip?
(a) Ties and ascots.
(b) Fruits and cheeses.
(c) Cufflinks and studs.
(d) Newspapers and telegrams.

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

13. What two colors does Carr theorize that Joyce's smoking jacket might have been?
(a) Blue or purple.
(b) Gold or taupe.
(c) Maroon or pink.
(d) Brown or grey.

14. According to Tzara, how do Communists like their art?
(a) Revolutionary.
(b) Nonexistent.
(c) Bourgeois.
(d) Tasteless.

15. According to Carr, what sensation is created by the many punctual clocks in Zurich?
(a) Permanence.
(b) Exactitude.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Possibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which "misfortune" does Carr refer in this section, regarding Tristan Tzara (14)?

2. From what object is Tzara drawing slips of paper in the beginning of the play?

3. What name has Carr been given for Gwen's chaperon?

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

5. What is the profession of the man who has Lenin as a tenant, according to Carr?

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