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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Carr, what likely happened around the same time as Das Kapital was published?
(a) Britain became the dominent manufacturing state.
(b) The worker officially became alienated form his labor.
(c) Europe lost interest in socialism.
(d) The capitalist system began improving.

3. What Shakespearean lady has Carr played at Eton?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Lady Macbeth.
(c) Rosalind.
(d) Goneril.

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

5. How does Carr describe his trial against Joyce at the end of Act 1?
(a) A travesty.
(b) A kangaroo court.
(c) A fait accompli.
(d) An epic battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lenin dislike about the staging of a Dickens tale?

2. Thinking that he is Tristan Tzara, how does Cecily characterize Henry Carr when they meet in Act 2?

3. What accessory does Lenin intend to wear as he steals out of Switzerland?

4. What object does Lenin accidentally strike when he slams his fist on Cecily's desk?

5. When he finally explodes at Joyce, into what does Tzara say the writer has turned literature?

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