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Dubliners

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Formative Years and Education
Literary Writing
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The Sisters
An Encounter
Araby
Eveline
After the Race
Two Gallants
The Boarding House
A Little Cloud
Counterparts
Clay
A Painful Case
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
A Mother
Grace
The Dead

Character Analyses

Unnamed Boy (“The Sisters,” “An Encounter,” “Araby”)
Gabriel Conroy (“The Dead”)

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Themes of Dubliners
James Joyce and Popular Culture

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1:  Dubliners takes place in Dublin, Ireland, at roughly what time?

a. 1800

b. 1850

c. 1900

d. 1950
2:  Before the start of “The Sisters,” Father Flynn died of what cause?

a. A stroke

b. A heart attack

c. Scarlet fever

d. Pneumonia
3:  The unnamed main character of “An Encounter” plays hooky from school in hopes of traveling where?

a. The shore of the River Liffey

b. The Dublin market

c. The Pigeon House

d. The race track
4:  The protagonist of “Araby” falls in love with whom?

a. Mangan’s sister

b. A beautiful nun

c. Eveline

d. The narrator’s own half-sister
5:  Eveline’s fiancé lives where?

a. Berlin

b. Australia

c. London

d. Argentina
6:  In “The Boarding House,” Mr. Doran is tricked into doing what?

a. Taking the blame for a recent robbery

b. Marrying Mrs. Mooney’s daughter

c. Paying double rent

d. Deceiving Mrs. Mooney’s husband
7:  Little Chandler in “A Little Cloud” dreams of becoming what?

a. A journalist

b. A poet

c. A portrait painter

d. A teacher
8:  In “A Painful Case,” how does Mr. Duffy find out about Mrs. Sinico’s suicide?

a. In the newspaper

b. The note left for him by Mrs. Sinico

c. A telegram from her sister

d. Overheard in conversation at the pub
9:  In “The Dead,” what memory makes Gretta Conroy cry?

a. The discovery of her husband’s infidelity

b. Her brother’s suicide

c. An argument with her beloved father

d. The death of her first lover
10:  Which character fits the following description: “She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.”

a. Maria, a poor unmarried woman who represent Ireland itself

b. Mrs. Mooney who is left spiritually dead after being attacked by her husband

c. Kathleen who is humiliated when she is forced to abandon her concert

d. Eveline who is prevented by paralysis from leaving Ireland with her fiancé
11:  Who said the following: “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”

a. Joe Hynes in “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”

b. The narrator of “Araby”

c. Corley in “Two Gallants”

d. The narrator of “The Sisters”
12:  Who said the following: “I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

a. The narrator of “Araby”

b. The narrator of “An Encounter”

c. Mr. Holohan in “A Mother”

d. Gabriel Conroy in “The Dead”
13:  Who said the following: "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

a. James Duffy in “A Painful Case”

b. Jimmy in “After the Race”

c. Gabriel Conroy in “The Dead”

d. Father James Flynn in “The Sisters”



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