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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following characters does not enter at the beginning of this section?
(a) Gwendolen.
(b) Tzara.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Cecily.

2. How many bottles of champagne have gone missing under Bennett's watch?
(a) None.
(b) 8.
(c) 17.
(d) 5.

3. Which character is unassisted at the beginning of Act 1?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Tzara.
(c) Carr.
(d) Joyce.

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

5. What object does Tzara say man would be without art?
(a) A grain silo.
(b) A turnstile.
(c) A thresher.
(d) A coffee-grinder.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Carr, what sensation is created by the many punctual clocks in Zurich?

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

3. What article of clothing does Carr mention is the focus of the lawsuit between Joyce and him?

4. What is Carr's first name?

5. Which character shushes the other characters onstage in the first scene of the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cecily believe the British are unusually bumbling in their spying on Lenin?

2. What is the purpose of Gwen and Joyce's visit in the limerick scene?

3. Describe Lenin's aversion to career artists.

4. Why does Tzara distrust beauty and reason?

5. How does Henry Carr change at the end of his monologue?

6. What lie does Carr argue is the artist's great achievement?

7. How does Bennett describe Tzara?

8. How does Carr respond to Tzara's Dadaist sentiments?

9. What does Lenin ask Nadya to do when he is imprisoned in St. Petersburg?

10. What is the real reason for Tzara's visit?

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