This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > James Joyce > James Joyce – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books James Joyce Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. James Joyce was not only a master of English but ..... A) A headmaster at the Eton School in London. B) Maintained an intense, scholarly interest in early English history. C) Fluent in many other languages. D) A master of Irish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fluent in many other languages. 2. In Finnegans Wake, which of the following typify family life? A) Murder. B) Slander. C) Hypocrisy. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 3. What do most critics say that Issy represents to her brothers and father? A) She is a source of secret, repressed desire. B) She represents the functional family structure. C) She is an example of piety. D) She dissolves the tension of the Oedipal references. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is a source of secret, repressed desire. 4. What is Araby? A) A bazaar held in 1894 in Dublin. B) The main character's uncle's racehorse. C) The Middle-Eastern section of Dublin. D) James Joyce's nickname for his lover, Nora Barnacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A bazaar held in 1894 in Dublin. 5. What does the narrator find when he arrives to the bazaar? A) It is a very small place. B) It is almost empty. C) It is very crowded. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is almost empty. 6. Please identify the text from which "then must any what you like in the power of empthoo" comes. A) "Araby". B) "The Dead". C) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. D) Finnegans Wake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Finnegans Wake. 7. In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc? A) Adolescence, maturity, childhood. B) Childhood, maturity, adolescence. C) Childhood, adolescence, maturity, public life. D) Childhood, adolescence, maturity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Childhood, adolescence, maturity, public life. 8. Why did the narrator decide to go to the bazaar by himself in the end? A) His uncle had forgotten. B) He did not want to be bothered. C) His uncle did not give him permission. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His uncle had forgotten. 9. In which story from The Dubliners is snow an important occurrence? A) "Araby". B) "The Boarding House". C) "The Dead". D) "An Encounter". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The Dead". 10. With which text(s) is the word "riverrun" associated? A) The Dubliners. B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. C) Ulysses. D) Finnegans Wake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Finnegans Wake. 11. With which important literary figure(s) was Joyce in contact in his lifetime? A) Arthur Symons. B) Harriet Weaver. C) W.B. Yeats. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 12. How many stanzas does the poem have? A) 2. B) 1. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 13. Why did the narrator like the books? A) The authors were his favourites. B) He just liked books. C) They were old. D) He was a writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were old. 14. What is the full name of James Joyce? A) Arnoldo James Daloysius Joyce. B) James Augustine Aloysius Joyce. C) James Augustine Aloysius Joyce. D) Augustine James Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Augustine Aloysius Joyce. 15. Why can't the boy go to the bazaar finally? A) Because there is a tea party. B) Because his aunt did not let him. C) Because his friends don't want to go. D) Because his uncle didn't give him money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because his uncle didn't give him money. 16. How does Joyce parallel Leopold and Stephen? A) Both are mature. B) Both tend to be cheerful. C) Both are artists. D) Both dislike music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both are artists. 17. Which text(s) are referenced in Joyce's Ulysses? A) The Bible. B) Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey. C) Yeat's "Who Goes with Fergus". D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 18. Joyce hoped to study ..... in Paris. A) Philosophy. B) History. C) Medicine. D) Physics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medicine. 19. What main Literary device can we see in this line? "The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Auditory Image. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 20. What did Maria lose on her way to Joe's house? A) Cake. B) Plum cake. C) Brownies. D) Cake pop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plum cake. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesJames Joyce Quiz 1James Joyce Quiz 2James Joyce Quiz 3James Joyce Quiz 5James Joyce Quiz 6James Joyce Quiz 7James Joyce Quiz 8James Joyce Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books