View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What affliction does Joyce confess to having at the beginning of this section?
(a) Syphillis.
(b) Gout.
(c) Glaucoma.
(d) Narcolepsy.

2. What Russian writer's name is Carr unable to pronounce at the end of this section?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

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

4. On what day is the Zurich Library closed?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Friday.

5. In this section, Cecily say that when the history of the revolution is written, what will not loom large in it?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Dada.
(c) The Kerensky government.
(d) Her name.

6. In this section, Tzara tells Gwen that her most perfect attribute is her what?
(a) Hands.
(b) Voice.
(c) Ear.
(d) Posterior.

7. Where are Lenin and Nadya when the war breaks out?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Russia.
(c) Austro-Hungary.
(d) Italy.

8. What composer's music reduces Lenin to tears int his section?
(a) Mozart.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Brahms.
(d) Wagner.

9. In what town is the most famous photo of Lenin taken?
(a) Bern.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Zurich.
(d) St. Petersburg.

10. From what type of dictionary does Tzara claim the word Dada was taken?
(a) Medical.
(b) Larousse.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Webster.

11. Who does Gwen leave to tell of her engagement to Tzara?
(a) Cecily.
(b) Bennett.
(c) Carr.
(d) Joyce.

12. To whom does Tzara credit the creation of Dada?
(a) Picabia.
(b) Duchamp.
(c) Himself.
(d) Arp.

13. In mocking Tzara's Dadaist pretensions in this section, what does Carr say the communist will have Tzara pissing?
(a) Vinegar.
(b) Blood.
(c) Multicolored.
(d) One color.

14. Whose poetry does Tzara attempt the dismember for Gwendolen in this section?
(a) Petrarch's.
(b) Donne's.
(c) Shakespeare's.
(d) Milton's.

15. What two countries are attempting to prevent Lenin's entry to Russia?
(a) Belgium and France.
(b) Germany and Serbia.
(c) Britain and France.
(d) Germany and Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cecily, what is the sole purpose of art?

2. Which of the following is not a specific art movement that Lenin decries as incomprehensible in this section?

3. How much money does Joyce request of Carr after the play for tickets?

4. According to Tzara, Huelsenbeck wanted to connect Dadaism to what other movement?

5. What novel by Tolstoy does Lenin especially admire?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 355 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample