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1 trivia quiz  James Joyce: "Ulysses" coolicon
"Ulysses" is one of the most famous novels of the twentieth century, but also one of the most difficult and controversial. Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom walk through Dublin on Bloomsday, while Molly stays at home.
Tough 25Q
198 plays
Apr 27 07
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2 trivia quiz  Mondo James Joyce cool
Questions covering the greatest of the greatest writers in the history of literature.
Average 25Q
411 plays
Nov 21 03
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3 trivia quiz  James Joyce's 'Dubliners' coolicon
'Dubliners' is perhaps the most accessible of Joyce's works. Joyce claimed he wrote this collection to expose what he referred to as the 'paralysis' permeating Dublin. Interestingly, most of the stories were written while Joyce lived outside Ireland.
Tough 10Q
381 plays
Feb 23 02
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* Which of these stories is NOT told in the first person?
* In the story 'Araby', what exactly is Araby?
* Whose death is eulogized in 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room'?
* What type of race has just occurred in 'After the Race'?
* Which object does Maria first pick from a bowl in a fortunetelling game?
* Who 'dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat'?
* What relation are Miss Kate and Miss Julia to Gabriel Conroy in 'The Dead'?
* Where is Eveline expecting to run off to with Frank in 'Eveline'?
* This story is the last in 'Dubliners' and was written several years after the others.
* While James Joyce was in Italy writing "Ulysses", he wrote a prose poem. This prose poem's title second word was 'Joyce' and the first word was the Italian form of his first name. What was that name?
* Who was the first and original publisher of James Joyce's "Ulysses"?
* What are the common names of the twin sons in "Finnegans Wake"?
* In "Ulysses", what was Buck Mulligan's nickname for Stephen?
* Name the place where James Joyce's wife Nora Barnacle hailed from?
* In the "Anna Livia Plurabelle" section of "Finnegan's Wake" what is the text filled with?
* What is Stephen Dedalus' motto in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"?
* At the beginning of "Ulysses", who does Stephen feel Buck Mulligan insulted?
* Finish this line from "Ulysses": The heaventree of stars hung with humid (blank) fruit.
* Who is the main person in "Ulysses" that Molly Bloom has an affair with?
* In "Ulysses", who does Stephen have a theory on?

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