By which physical affliction was Joyce affected?

	a. autism
	b. blindness
	c. deafness
	d. loss of limb
	e. schizophrenia

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By which religious writer was Joyce most clearly influenced?

	a. Thomas Aquinas
	b. William Bradshaw
	c. John Foxe
	d. William Tyndale
	e. Augustine of Hippo

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For Joyce, what are epiphanies?

	a. moments of awakening
	b. short prose sketches that vary in character
	c. dream-like pieces of writing
	d. deep realizations linked with religious faith
	e. All of the Above

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How do most critics believe Joyce’s exile affected his use of language?

	a. After his exile, he only used one “voice” in his works
	b. After his exile, he disliked the intricacy of language
	c. After his exile, he never used split narratives
	d. After his exile, he used a mixture of languages and linguistic traditions in his works
	e. After his exile, he only wrote in the Irish language

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In what way(s) did the events of the Easter Rising affect the work of writers?

	a. it challenged Irish writers to re-imagine the Irish nation
	b. it led many Irish writers to criticize British colonial practices
	c. it led to more depictions of violence and sacrifice in Irish literature
	d. it inspired Irish writers to create an Irish national identity
	e. All of the Above

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In what year did Ireland acquire national independence?

	a. 1847
	b. 1893
	c. 1906
	d. 1922
	e. 1942

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In what year did the Easter Rising occur?

	a. 1901
	b. 1916
	c. 1922
	d. 1934
	e. 1939

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In which location(s) did Joyce live while in exile?

	a. Pola
	b. Trieste
	c. Paris
	d. Zurich
	e. All of the Above

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To whom was Joyce married?

	a. Nora Barnacle
	b. Sylvia Beach
	c. Molly Bloom
	d. Augusta Gregory
	e. Harriet Shaw

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Which author(s) are associated with Modernism?

	a. Virginia Woolf
	b. T.S. Eliot
	c. T.E. Hulme
	d. Ezra Pound
	e. All of the Above

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Which cultural event(s) led to the rise of Modernism?

	a. the inventions of the automobile, airplane, and telephone
	b. the spread of Freud’s theories
	c. the increased pace of everyday life
	d. the controversy over traditional ideas of certainty and morality
	e. All of the Above

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Which event(s) caused the Easter Rising?

	a. the resentment over British control
	b. an increase in Irish nationalism
	c. the Irish desire for independence
	d. the formation of the secret, revolutionary IRB
	e. All of the Above

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Which of the following characterizes Modernism?

	a. the desire to show realistic forms
	b. the use of traditional formal structure
	c. the lack of interest in characters’ psyches
	d. the desire to break with established forms
	e. All of the Above

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Which problem(s) shaped Joyce’s early home life?

	a. frequent moves
	b. his father’s alcoholism
	c. poverty
	d. lack of stable work
	e. All of the Above

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Which was a common metaphor used by Irish writers in their depictions of the nation?

	a. the metaphor of Ireland as a novel
	b. the metaphor of Ireland as a woman
	c. the metaphor of Ireland as a child
	d. the metaphor of Ireland as a soldier
	e. the metaphor of Ireland as a poem

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Which writer(s) is/are associated with the Irish Literary Revival?

	a. Augusta Gregory
	b. George Russell
	c. J.M. Synge
	d. W.B. Yeats
	e. All of the Above

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Who was Charles Parnell?

	a. the leader of the Home Rule movement
	b. a popular symbol of Irish nationalism
	c. an Irish representative in the British Parliament
	d. the founder of the Catholic Land League
	e. All of the Above

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With which important literary figure(s) was Joyce in contact in his lifetime?

	a. Ezra Pound
	b. Arthur Symons
	c. Harriet Weaver
	d. W.B. Yeats
	e. All of the Above

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With whom is the concept of “claritas” associated?

	a. Thomas Aquinas
	b. Augusta Gregory
	c. Charles Parnell
	d. Ezra Pound
	e. W.B. Yeats

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Which writer arranged for the publication of The Dubliners?

	a. Ezra Pound
	b. W.B. Yeats
	c. Ernest Hemmingway
	d. Virginia Woolf
	e. T.S. Eliot

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According to critics, what is the function of The Dubliners’ third person narration?

	a. it counters the sense of unrequited love
	b. it is used only to disrupt the more prominent first-person narration
	c. it makes the stories seem more impersonal
	d. it breaks through the sense of paralysis
	e. All of the Above

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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
	e. she leaves for America

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In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis?

	a. it shows the stasis of Irish life
	b. it is represented in a way that implies collective activity is needed
	c. it reveals the sense of imprisonment that comes from routine
	d. it reveals characters’ literal inability to move away from Ireland
	e. All of the Above

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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
	e. adolescence, public life, maturity

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In The Dubliners, which literary device does Joyce use most frequently?

	a. acatalectic
	b. chiasmus
	c. fantasy
	d. pentameter
	e. vowel shift

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In The Dubliners, which literary style is used?

	a. realism
	b. impressionism
	c. fantasy
	d. gothic
	e. romanticism

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In The Dubliners, which negative characteristic(s) does Joyce associate with Dublin as a place?

	a. alienation
	b. commonness
	c. boredom
	d. backwardness
	e. All of the Above

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In The Dubliners, which story/stories provide(s) an example of unrequited passion?

	a. “Araby”
	b. “The Dead”
	c. “Eveline”
	d. “A Painful Case”
	e. All of the Above

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In which story from The Dubliners is snow an important occurrence?

	a. “Araby”
	b. “The Boarding House”
	c. “The Dead”
	d. “An Encounter”
	e. “A Mother”

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In “A Little Cloud,” what does Little Chandler dream about becoming?

	a. a reporter
	b. a father
	c. a poet
	d. a soldier
	e. All of the Above

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In “A Mother,” what does Mrs. Kearney make her daughter learn?

	a. the piano
	b. the Irish language
	c. the English language
	d. the violin
	e. All of the Above

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In “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” which historical national figure is celebrated?

	a. Leopold Bloom
	b. Molly Bloom
	c. Charles Stuart Parnell
	d. Wolf Tone
	e. W.B. Yeats

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In “The Dead,” what do most critics suggest is important about the snowfall?

	a. the snow represents Ireland’s inability to become independent
	b. the snow represents the quiet that covers life and death
	c. the snow represents the promise of love
	d. the snow represents the characters’ ability to escape Ireland
	e. the snow represents the end of paralysis

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In “Two Gallants,” Joyce’s major critical commentary is:

	a. that women are more at fault than men
	b. that individuals are too passive
	c. that people work too hard for change
	d. that Catholicism is not to blame for problems
	e. that women are too radical

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Please identify the story: “her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.”

	a. “The Boarding House”
	b. “Clay”
	c. “Eveline”
	d. “A Little Cloud”
	e. “A Mother”

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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
	e. the race to improve scientific methods

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Which best describes the tone at the end of “Araby?”

	a. hopeful
	b. disappointed
	c. joyful
	d. satiric
	e. playful

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Which of the following does Joyce address thematically in The Dubliners?

	a. the positive side of war with Germany
	b. the supremacy of Britain
	c. Irish nationalism
	d. the Irish nation’s inability to survive without England’s help
	e. All of the Above

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Which of the following exemplifies the Modernist style of The Dubliners?

	a. the positive representation of cultural institutions
	b. the representation of a shallow, drab culture
	c. the positive representation of the Catholic Church
	d. the representation of adventures the city offers to the mind
	e. All of the Above

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In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies?

	a. they let characters come to realizations that alter their views
	b. they sometimes clarify the connection between death and life
	c. they are often coupled with resignation, sadness, and frustration
	d. they create a system of hope, followed by passive acceptance
	e. All of the Above

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According to Randy Hofbauer, what is/are the purpose(s) of the epiphany?

	a. it enables Stephen to say in Ireland forever
	b. it prepares Stephen to accept his artistic rebirth
	c. it ends Stephen’s period of enlightenment
	d. it helps Stephen to decide to join the Catholic church
	e. All of the Above

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According to Stephen, how is art represented in the lyrical form?

	a. the image is presented in immediate relation to the artist himself
	b. the image is presented is immediate relation to the artist and others
	c. the image is presented in a way that is not purely personal
	d. the image is presented in immediate relation to others only
	e. the image is presented in a way that is completely impersonal

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From whom does Stephen borrow his idea of clarity?

	a. Thomas Aquinas
	b. W.B. Yeats
	c. Augusta Gregory
	d. Ezra Pound
	e. Ernest Hemmingway

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How does Stephen react to his first sexual encounter?

	a. he feels alienated
	b. he feels proud
	c. he feels at peace
	d. he feels confident
	e. he feels liberated

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In A Portrait of the Artist, how do most critics suggest that the flight motif functions?

	a. it reminds the reader of the hero’s mythical counterpart
	b. it represents the desire to flee Ireland
	c. it represents the hero’s fear that he will overestimate his abilities
	d. it implies that the artist must take flight to do his work
	e. All of the Above

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In A Portrait of the Artist, how is the artist represented?

	a. as a mythical character
	b. as a friend
	c. as a family member
	d. as a romantic hero
	e. All of the Above

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In A Portrait of the Artist, the main character is named after which mythical figure?

	a. Aeneas
	b. Icarus
	c. Daedalus
	d. Minos
	e. Zeus

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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen’s relationship with his Catholic faith?

	a. he is opposed to the Catholic faith for the entire novel
	b. because he has been raised Catholic, he never struggles with his faith
	c. he is torn between his desire for freedom and his desire to be moral
	d. he is committed to priesthood for the entire novel
	e. he believes that Catholicism is more powerful than art

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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is Stephen’s relationship with his Irish nationality?

	a. he is conflicted by his desire to leave Ireland because he has inextricable ties to it
	b. he is sure of his desire to become a leader like Parnell because his friends and family universally praise Irish leaders
	c. he is committed to staying in Ireland
	d. he deeply wants to leave Ireland, but he feels that, as an artist, he can only work with national themes
	e. All of the Above

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In A Portrait of the Artist, what is the importance of music?

	a. it inspires Stephen to leave Ireland to write
	b. it ties in with Stephen’s appreciation of language
	c. it reminds Stephen of his desire to live life to the fullest
	d. it provides a way for Stephen to feel at peace
	e. All of the Above

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In A Portrait of the Artist, what unique style does Joyce use?

	a. iambic pentameter
	b. vowel shift
	c. chiasmus
	d. acatalectic
	e. stream of consciousness

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In order to become an artist, what does Stephen Dedalus sacrifice from his life?

	a. his chance for isolation
	b. his relationship with his family and friends
	c. his individual consciousness
	d. his ability to flee Ireland
	e. All of the Above

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In which way(s) is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a Modernist novel?

	a. it does not explore a character’s internal development
	b. it uses experimental language
	c. it celebrates the simplicity of everyday life
	d. it follows a traditional narrative structure
	e. All of the Above

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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
	e. harmony, clarity, and perception

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What is a kunstleroman?

	a. a novel that traces women’s intellectual developments
	b. an artist’s novel of awakening
	c. an artist’s journey in which he always abandons his art
	d. a novel in which the hero solves a crime
	e. a novel that traces two characters unrequited love

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What is the significance of the words “moocow” and “tuckoo,” according to most critics?

	a. it represents Joyce’s decision not to use stream of consciousness
	b. it emulates an adult’s intellectual process
	c. it captures the intellectual perceptions of a child
	d. it represents Joyce’s shift to more conventional language
	e. it represents that artist’s use of dream sequences

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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
	e. sentimental novel

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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
	e. All of the Above

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Who says “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race?”

	a. Leopold Bloom
	b. Molly Bloom
	c. Gabriel Conroy
	d. Stephen Dedalus
	e. Jimmy Doyle

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man thematizes which of the following:

	a. sexual awakening
	b. the artist in exile
	c. spiritual crisis
	d. artistic awakening
	e. All of the Above

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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
	e. All of the Above

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In Ulysses, Joyce retells which ancient story?

	a. Homer’s The Iliad
	b. Homer’s The Odyssey
	c. Virgil’s The Aeneid
	d. Sophocles’s Antigone
	e. Sophocles’s Oedipus

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In Ulysses, to what does Bloom often compare life?

	a. a newspaper
	b. a stream
	c. a law
	d. a book
	e. an advertisement

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In Ulysses, what is/are the effect(s) of the stream of consciousness technique?

	a. it obstructs the characters’ interior thoughts
	b. it provides a conventional approach to representing the characters
	c. it makes the characters’ emotions less immediate
	d. it provides direct access to the characters’ consciousness
	e. All of the Above

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In Ulysses, which character best exemplifies anti-Semitism?

	a. Leopold Bloom
	b. Mr. Deasy
	c. Gabriel Conroy
	d. Molly Ivors
	e. Mrs. Mooney

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In Ulysses, which characteristic(s) can be considered Modernist?

	a. the sequential construction of time
	b. the lack of taboo topics
	c. the use traditional language
	d. the inclusion of various types of media
	e. All of the Above

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In Ulysses, which experimental technique(s) does Joyce use?

	a. unusual punctuation
	b. puns
	c. parodies
	d. unconventional syntax
	e. All of the Above

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In Ulysses, which stylistic characteristic(s) appear?

	a. interior monologue
	b. stream of consciousness
	c. repetition of words
	d. shifts in narrative voice
	e. All of the Above

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In Ulysses, with which mythical character does Stephen best correspond?

	a. Odysseus
	b. Telemachus
	c. Nestor
	d. Nausicaa
	e. Menelaus

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In what context does Joyce use the term “amor matris,” or motherly love?

	a. in The Dubliners, Chandler uses it to describe family relationships
	b. in The Dubliners, Gabriel uses it in his discussions about death
	c. in Ulysses, Stephen uses it in his lectures on art
	d. in Ulysses, Leopold uses it to describe his personal identity
	e. in Finnegans Wake, Shaun uses it to describe his family

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What is the function of the Linati schema?

	a. it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners
	b. it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners
	c. it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses
	d. it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake
	e. it outlines the basic chapter structure of Finnegans Wake

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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
	e. All of the Above

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Which best describes Bloom’s attitude towards nationalism?

	a. he is deeply invested in the nationalist cause
	b. he hopes to join the IRB
	c. he is disinterested in nationalism
	d. he is opposed to the nationalist cause
	e. he wants to work to stop the IRB from achieving its goals

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Which character says he “fear[s] those big words that make us so unhappy”?

	a. Stephen Dedalus
	b. Mr. Deasy
	c. Gabriel Conroy
	d. Leopold Bloom
	e. Little Chandler

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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
	e. Gretta Conroy

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Which of the following themes is/are addressed in Ulysses?

	a. dysfunctional families
	b. religious identity
	c. national identity
	d. married relationships
	e. All of the Above

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Who says “history is like a nightmare from which I must awake”?

	a. Leopold Bloom
	b. Little Chandler
	c. Joe Donnelly
	d. Stephen Dedalus
	e. Tom Kernan

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With which character in The Odyssey does Molly Bloom best correspond?

	a. Nausicaa
	b. Aeolus
	c. Penelope
	d. Telemachus
	e. Nestor

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Which text(s) are referenced in Joyce’s Ulysses?

	a. Shakespeare’s Hamlet
	b. The Bible
	c. Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey
	d. Yeat’s “Who Goes with Fergus”
	e. All of the Above

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According to Margot Norris, what do Joyce’s novels imply about civilization?

	a. that it depends on repression
	b. that it ends paralysis
	c. that it enables fulfillment
	d. that it resolves spiritual crises
	e. All of the Above

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According to Margot Norris, what is the ontological problem of Finnegans Wake?

	a. the characters’ preference for reality over dreams
	b. the inability to distinguish between the “self” and “other”
	c. the inability to experience guilt
	d. the disconnection from primal senses and urges
	e. the characters’ fixed identities

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According to Margot Norris, what is the significance of guilt in Finnegans Wake?

	a. it manifests itself in rumors and scandal
	b. it represents original sin
	c. it is linked with sexual perversions
	d. it represents the Freudian primal scene
	e. All of the Above

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According to most critics, what does the circular structure of Finnegans Wake represent?

	a. the role of the church
	b. the impossibility of resurrection
	c. the unconscious
	d. unrequited love
	e. the patterns of birth, life, and death

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How do historians say Joyce’s exile manifest itself in Finnegans Wake?

	a. it led to the combination of multiple languages to form new words
	b. it led to the inclusion of dream scenarios
	c. it led to the lack of allusions to other cultures’ stories and myths
	d. it led to the focus on the family as a functional institution
	e. it led to the use of a more conventional language

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How do Shem the Penman and Shaun the Post differ?

	a. while Shem is a conformist, Shaun is a talented artist
	b. while Shem would rather be a priest, Shaun is happy at his work
	c. while Shem is a postman, Shaun is a artist and writer
	d. while Shem is an artistic outsider, Shaun is a dull conformist
	e. while Shem is equated with saints, Shaun is equated with the devil

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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
	e. he uses an allusion to Yeats’s war poems

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In Finnegans Wake, to which text(s) does Joyce make an allusion?

	a. Shakespeare’s Hamlet
	b. the Book of the Dead
	c. the Bible
	d. Vico’s La Scienza Nuova
	e. All of the Above

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In Finnegans Wake, which of the following typify family life?

	a. seduction
	b. murder
	c. slander
	d. hypocrisy
	e. All of the Above

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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
	e. “Eveline”

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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
	e. she alleviates her family’s sense of guilt

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What is unique about the structure of Finnegans Wake?

	a. the last sentence and first sentence are circular
	b. the novel has a traditional plot; nothing is particularly unique about it
	c. the start of the book bears no resemblance to the end
	d. the novel is clearly written from the future to the past
	e. it is broken up into hundreds of episodes

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Which of the following are popular sources of dispute in the critical study of Finnegans Wake?

	a. whether the events of novel are real or a dream
	b. whether the novel has a plot
	c. whether the novel has definite characters
	d. whether the novel has a protagonist
	e. All of the Above

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Which of the following figures of speech are present in Finnegans Wake?

	a. multilingual puns
	b. allusions
	c. jokes
	d. portmanteaus
	e. All of the Above

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Which of the following themes are developed in Finnegans Wake?

	a. forgiveness
	b. married relationships
	c. dreams
	d. the movement of time
	e. All of the Above

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Why do critics consider the dream form ideal for Finnegans Wake?

	a. it prevents exploration of the unconscious
	b. it obscures the characters’ immediate thoughts
	c. it allows for the introduction of plot snippets and new language
	d. it makes the readers’ experience of the characters less intimate
	e. it ensures a linear construction of time

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Why do most scholars consider Finnegans Wake avant-garde?

	a. the stream of conscious style
	b. the invented words
	c. the free dream associations
	d. the sketchy, episodic structure
	e. All of the Above

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With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified?

	a. Wolfe Tone
	b. Charles Stuart Parnell
	c. Father Arnall
	d. Daniel O’Connell
	e. All of the Above

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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
	e. All of the Above

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From what source is the title of Finnegans Wake taken?

	a. a poem by Yeats
	b. a popular Irish ballad
	c. an ancient epic
	d. a poem by Eliot
	e. a traditional war ballad

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