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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) Narcolepsy.
(b) Syphillis.
(c) Gout.
(d) Glaucoma.

2. What is the name of the man in whose house Lenin stay in Zurich?
(a) Kammerer.
(b) Schweisz.
(c) Bedetung.
(d) Crousse.

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

4. Why does Cecily dislike Oscar WIlde?
(a) He is a homosexual.
(b) He is a bourgeois individualist.
(c) He is Irish.
(d) He is a noted colonialist.

5. What movement is represented by the artist Mayakovsky in this section?
(a) Dadaism.
(b) Cubism.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Futurism.

6. How much money does Joyce request of Carr after the play for tickets?
(a) 10 francs.
(b) 25 francs.
(c) 20 francs.
(d) 15 francs.

7. What profession does Lenin's attire suggest when he enters in Act 2?
(a) A banker.
(b) A parson.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A porter.

8. What two countries does Carr tell Cecily are the same in this section?
(a) Albania and Montenegro.
(b) Bulgaria and Romania.
(c) China and Mongolia.
(d) Russia and Germany.

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

10. At a meeting of Russian emigres in Zurich, though what country do the Russians discuss passing to return to their homeland?
(a) Finland.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Poland.
(d) Germany.

11. What does Carr dream about sometimes?
(a) Cross-examining Joyce.
(b) Writing Ulysses.
(c) Acting in The Importance of Being Earnest.
(d) The trenches.

12. What accessory does Lenin intend to wear as he steals out of Switzerland?
(a) Sunglasses.
(b) Face bandages.
(c) A wig.
(d) A cape.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what purpose does Carr propose that he and Cecily go to lunch?

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

3. In this section, Tzara tells Gwen that her most perfect attribute is her what?

4. Which of the following is not a title that Joyce attaches to Odysseus in this section?

5. What type of literature does Lenin denounce in a 1905 speech in this section?

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