This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > James Joyce > James Joyce – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books James Joyce Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to most critics, what does the circular structure of Finnegans Wake represent? A) The impossibility of resurrection. B) The unconscious. C) Unrequited love. D) The patterns of birth, life, and death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The patterns of birth, life, and death. 2. What themes are present in the poem? A) War & Anarchy. B) Loss & Time. C) Loss & War. D) Time & Anarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loss & War. 3. Who says "history is like a nightmare from which I must awake" ? A) Leopold Bloom. B) Little Chandler. C) Joe Donnelly. D) Stephen Dedalus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stephen Dedalus. 4. What was your daughter's name? A) Lucia Joyce. B) Victoria joise. C) Virginia goyce. D) Isabel Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lucia Joyce. 5. For Joyce, what are epiphanies? A) Short prose sketches that vary in character. B) Dream-like pieces of writing. C) Deep realizations linked with religious faith. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 6. In Finnegans Wake, to which text(s) does Joyce make an allusion? A) The Book of the Dead. B) The Bible. C) Vico's La Scienza Nuova. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 7. Which of the following figures of speech are present in Finnegans Wake? A) Allusions. B) Jokes. C) Portmanteaus. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 8. Why do most scholars consider Finnegans Wake avant-garde? A) The invented words. B) The free dream associations. C) The sketchy, episodic structure. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 9. What main device can we see in this line? "I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood." A) Auditory Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 10. To what does the title of Joyce's short story "After the Race" refer? A) The race for more modes of transportation. B) The decline of the Irish race. C) The race to establish an empire. D) The race for Ireland's welfare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The race to establish an empire. 11. In Ulysses, to what does Bloom often compare life? A) A newspaper. B) A stream. C) A law. D) A book. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A stream. 12. According to the story, which of the following statements about Frank is NOT true? A) He has challenged Eveline's father to a duel. B) He wants to marry Eveline. C) He likes music. D) He tells stories of his travels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He has challenged Eveline's father to a duel. 13. What was the name of James Joyce's wife? A) Nora Barnacle. B) Ezra Pound. C) Sylvia Beach. D) Lucia Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nora Barnacle. 14. What was/were the reaction(s) to Ulysses when it was first published? A) It was considered inferior by most authors who read it. B) It was banned for obscenity. C) It was considered too conventional for publication. D) It was praised by the government and churches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was banned for obscenity. 15. In this game what did the clay represent? A) Happy life. B) Early death. C) Long health. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Early death. 16. Which character says "wasn't she the downright villain to go and do a thing like that" ? A) Molly Bloom. B) Mrs. Mooney. C) Mrs. Sinico. D) Gerty MacDowell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Molly Bloom. 17. In what year did Ireland acquire national independence? A) 1847. B) 1893. C) 1906. D) 1922. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1922. 18. Which best describes A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in terms of genre? A) Bildungsroman. B) Comedy of manners. C) Pastoral. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bildungsroman. 19. Who is Michael Furey? A) An Irish nationalist. B) A drunk party guest. C) Gabriel's favorite nephew. D) Gretta's dead ex-boyfriend. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gretta's dead ex-boyfriend. 20. Which of the following delays the boy's arrival to Araby? A) There is an intense thunderstorm. B) He cannot find his boots. C) He is sent to a room after a fight with his brother. D) His uncle doesn't come home until 9:00 in the evening. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His uncle doesn't come home until 9:00 in the evening. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesJames Joyce Quiz 1James Joyce Quiz 2James Joyce Quiz 3James Joyce Quiz 4James Joyce Quiz 5James Joyce Quiz 6James Joyce Quiz 8James Joyce Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books