1: To emphasize Stephen’s inward turnings, Joyce withholds which vital bit of information about Stephen until late in the novel?
a. Stephen is left-handed.
b. Stephen has been studying Oriental philosophies.
c. Stephen broke his glasses the day before Ulysses begins.
d. Stephen has resumed his earlier religious beliefs.
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2: The narrative tone of Ulysses is best described as
a. reverential
b. academic
c. operatic
d. mock heroic
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3: The students in Stephen’s class
a. would rather listen to riddles and jokes
b. are impatient to learn about Pyrrhus
c. are excellent Latin scholars
d. working to win scholarships
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4: The design of Ulysses suggests a connection between Stephen’s headmaster, Mr. Deasey, and what character from The Iliad?
a. King Priam
b. Achilles
c. Hector
d. Nestor
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5: Stephen’s distaste for the headmaster, Garrett Deasey, is in large part because Deasey
a. speaks with a lisp
b. gets his facts all wrong
c. cannot speak Latin
d. takes the British position on all matters
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6: Buck Mulligan’s aunt forbid him to remain Stephen’s friend because
a. like Bloom, Stephen is part Jewish
b. Stephen comes from a low-class family
c. Stephen refused to pray at his dying mother’s bedside
d. Stephen drinks too much
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7: At the graveside where Paddy Dignam is to be buried, the mysterious man in a Macintosh coat turns out to be
a. a distant relative of Dignam
b. an insurance salesman
c. a former lover of Molly Bloom
d. unidentified throughout the entire novel
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8: In the “Hades” section, Bloom is portrayed as
a. a total outsider
b. a man respected for his scientific interests
c. a shrewd financial speculator
d. a devoted friend of the deceased Dignam
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9: Bloom is unable to eat lunch at the Burton Hotel dining room because
a. he is refused service by an anti-Semitic waiter
b. the food is non-Kosher
c. he is disgusted by the eating habits of the patrons
d. he gets into an argument with another patron
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10: When Bloom meets Mrs. Breen, she tells him
a. her husband has gone half mad
b. she wants to meet him alone in private
c. she wants Bloom to do her a great favor
d. about her desire to open a dress shop
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11: Stephen considers his explication of Shakespeare, given in the National Library, to be
a. mere performance
b. a result of considerable thought and research
c. his key to getting a better teaching job
d. a covert indictment of Irish nationalism
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12: In the “Scylla and Charybdis” segment, Joyce makes it clear that Stephen is
a. well thought of by the Irish Literary Renaissance movement
b. as much of an outsider in Dublin as Bloom is
c. accepted by the literary figures only because of Buck Mulligan’s influence
d. resented because of his brutal honesty
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13: Ulysses is essentially a(n)
a. philosophical investigation
b. comic novel
c. tribute to Irish literarure
d. anti-English diatribe
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14: Who said the following: “He is going to write something in ten years.”
a. Blazes Boylan
b. Father Conmee
c. Stephen Dedalus
d. Buck Mulligan
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15: Who said the following: “O greasy eyes! Imagine being married to a man like that. . . .”
a. Molly Bloom
b. Mina Purefoy
c. Martha Clifford
d. Lydia Douce
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