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Category: James Joyce
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
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
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
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
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
In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis ?
A. it is represented in a way that implies collective activity is needed
B. it reveals the sense of imprisonment that comes from routine
C. it reveals characters’ literal inability to move away from Ireland
D. All of the Above
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
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
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
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