This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > James Joyce > James Joyce – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books James Joyce Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. James Joyce was not only a master of English but ..... A) Maintained an intense, scholarly interest in early English history. B) A headmaster at the Eton School in London. 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 an example of piety. B) She represents the functional family structure. C) She is a source of secret, repressed desire. D) She dissolves the tension of the Oedipal references. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She is a source of secret, repressed desire. 4. 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. 5. Please identify the text from which "then must any what you like in the power of empthoo" comes. A) "Araby". B) Finnegans Wake. C) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. D) "The Dead". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Finnegans Wake. 6. In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc? A) Childhood, adolescence, maturity, public life. B) Childhood, adolescence, maturity. C) Adolescence, maturity, childhood. D) Childhood, maturity, adolescence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Childhood, adolescence, maturity, public life. 7. 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. 8. In which story from The Dubliners is snow an important occurrence? A) "An Encounter". B) "The Dead". C) "Araby". D) "The Boarding House". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The Dead". 9. With which text(s) is the word "riverrun" associated? A) Finnegans Wake. B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. C) The Dubliners. D) Ulysses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Finnegans Wake. 10. 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. 11. How many stanzas does the poem have? A) 3. B) 4. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 12. Why did the narrator like the books? A) He just liked books. B) They were old. C) He was a writer. D) The authors were his favourites. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They were old. 13. 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. 14. Why can't the boy go to the bazaar finally? A) Because his friends don't want to go. B) Because his uncle didn't give him money. C) Because there is a tea party. D) Because his aunt did not let him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because his uncle didn't give him money. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. Joyce hoped to study ..... in Paris. A) Philosophy. B) Physics. C) History. D) Medicine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Medicine. 18. 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) Irony. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Auditory Image. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. What did Maria lose on her way to Joe's house? A) Cake pop. B) Plum cake. C) Brownies. D) Cake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plum cake. 20. Which of the following are popular sources of dispute in the critical study of Finnegans Wake? A) Whether the novel has a plot. B) Whether the novel has definite characters. C) Whether the novel has a protagonist. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 21. Who says "forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race? " A) Molly Bloom. B) Gabriel Conroy. C) Stephen Dedalus. D) Leopold Bloom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stephen Dedalus. 22. Which writer arranged for the publication of The Dubliners? A) W.B. Yeats. B) Ezra Pound. C) Ernest Hemmingway. D) Virginia Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ezra Pound. 23. What is the most famous work of James Joyce? A) The Dead. B) Ulysses. C) Stephen Hero. D) Dubliners. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ulysses. 24. Which character says he "fear[s] those big words that make us so unhappy" ? A) Stephen Dedalus. B) Gabriel Conroy. C) Leopold Bloom. D) Mr. Deasy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stephen Dedalus. 25. James Joyce's daughter was ..... A) Sick of malaria. B) Blind. C) Schizophrenic. D) Anorexic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Schizophrenic. 26. What are the three parts of Stephen's espoused aesthetic theory? A) Perception, clarity, and wholeness. B) Kinesis, clarity, and perception. C) Clarity, wholeness, and kinesis. D) Wholeness, harmony, and clarity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wholeness, harmony, and clarity. 27. What is the profession of Eveline's lover? A) A doctor. B) A sailor. C) A priest. D) A lawyer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sailor. 28. Where & when was James Joyce born? A) February 22, 1890 (Galway, Ireland). B) August 3, 1886 (Cork, Ireland). C) February 2, 1882 (Dublin, Ireland). D) August 8, 1893 (Killarney, Ireland). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) February 2, 1882 (Dublin, Ireland). 29. With which character in The Odyssey does Molly Bloom best correspond? A) Penelope. B) Aeolus. C) Telemachus. D) Nausicaa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Penelope. 30. What sound does Eveline hear that reminds her of mother's death? A) A breaking glass. B) A street organ. C) A pigeon cooing. D) A train whistle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A street organ. 31. Who does the narrator live with? A) His friends. B) Mother and Father. C) Aunt and Uncle. D) Grandma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aunt and Uncle. 32. In "A Mother, " what does Mrs. Kearney make her daughter learn? A) The English language. B) The piano. C) The Irish language. D) The violin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Irish language. 33. According to Margot Norris, what is the significance of guilt in Finnegans Wake? A) It represents original sin. B) It is linked with sexual perversions. C) It represents the Freudian primal scene. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 34. In Ulysses, which stylistic characteristic(s) appear? A) Stream of consciousness. B) Repetition of words. C) Shifts in narrative voice. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 35. In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love? A) He refers to the mythical Daedalus. B) He uses an allusion to the mythical Odysseus. C) He uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult. D) He refers to the Oedipal myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult. 36. Why did the writer settle in Paris? A) To be a bum. B) To marry. C) To study mythology. D) To study literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To study literature. 37. When did the girl's name came to the narrator's mind? A) When he was playing. B) When he was praying. C) When he was reading. D) When he was eating. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When he was praying. 38. Which is/are an element(s) of Stephen's aesthetic theories? A) Art should not produce stasis in the viewer. B) Art should be kinetic. C) Art should be harmonious and proportional. D) Art should not please the perception. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Art should be harmonious and proportional. 39. The story "Araby" is set on the actual street where James Joyce grew up. It is called: A) Cockney Square. B) Dublin Street. C) North Richmond Street. D) White Hart Lane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) North Richmond Street. 40. At the end of the text, what song did Maria sing to the kids? A) "Rocky road to Dublin". B) "All around my hat". C) "I dreamt that I dwelt". D) "The Arkansas traveler". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "I dreamt that I dwelt". 41. Which writer(s) is/are associated with the Irish Literary Revival? A) George Russell. B) J.M. Synge. C) W.B. Yeats. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 42. Mangan's sister comes out to the front steps to A) Find out how dark it is outside. B) Have a conversation with the narrator. C) See what game the boys are playing. D) Call her brother to come home for tea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Call her brother to come home for tea. 43. What James sudied? A) Physics. B) Philosophy. C) History. D) Medicine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Medicine. 44. In Ulysses, which characteristic(s) can be considered Modernist? A) The inclusion of various types of media. B) The sequential construction of time. C) The lack of taboo topics. D) The use traditional language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The inclusion of various types of media. 45. Why did the boy want to go to Araby? A) To buy a gift for Mangan's sister, with whom he is in love. B) To see the Middle-Eastern snake-charmer's show. C) To taste the newest invention:cotton candy. D) To place a bet on the derby. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To buy a gift for Mangan's sister, with whom he is in love. 46. Which of the following characterizes Modernism? A) The lack of interest in characters' psyches. B) The desire to show realistic forms. C) The desire to break with established forms. D) The use of traditional formal structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The desire to break with established forms. 47. Where was James Joyce born and died? A) Dublin, Zurich. B) Neiva York, Capital. C) Berlin, Zurich. D) Constantinople, Istanbul. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dublin, Zurich. 48. What was James afraid of? A) Spiders and thunderstorms. B) God and dogs. C) Dogs and thunderstorms. D) Dogs and spiders. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dogs and thunderstorms. 49. Which cultural event(s) led to the rise of Modernism? A) The spread of Freud's theories. B) The increased pace of everyday life. C) The controversy over traditional ideas of certainty and morality. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 50. Which event(s) caused the Easter Rising? A) An increase in Irish nationalism. B) The Irish desire for independence. C) The formation of the secret, revolutionary IRB. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 51. Where does Frank have home? A) Patagonia. B) Belfast. C) Buenos Aires. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buenos Aires. 52. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man thematizes which of the following: A) The artist in exile. B) Spiritual crisis. C) Artistic awakening. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 53. What is Eveline holding in her lap as she looks out the window at the start of "Eveline" ? A) A white cat. B) A china horse. C) A bowl of soup. D) Letters to her family. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Letters to her family. 54. What was the name of the poet? A) James Joyce. B) William Wordsworth. C) Robert Frost. D) Edgar Allan Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Joyce. 55. At the end of "Eveline, " what decision does the title character make? A) She decides to stay in Ireland. B) She decides to quit her job. C) She decides to leave her mother. D) She leaves for France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She decides to stay in Ireland. 56. 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. 57. What themes are present in the poem? A) Loss & War. B) Time & Anarchy. C) Loss & Time. D) War & Anarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Loss & War. 58. 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. 59. What was your daughter's name? A) Victoria joise. B) Virginia goyce. C) Lucia Joyce. D) Isabel Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lucia Joyce. 60. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesJames Joyce Quiz 1James Joyce Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books