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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
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
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
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
Which writer arranged for the publication of The Dubliners ?
A. Ezra Pound
B. W.B. Yeats
C. Ernest Hemmingway
D. Virginia Woolf
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
With whom is the concept of “claritas” associated ?
A. Thomas Aquinas
B. Augusta Gregory
C. Charles Parnell
D. Ezra Pound
Who says “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race ?
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
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
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