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Test your knowledge of all things James Joyce with our Bloomsday centenary quiz.
1) What were James Joyce's middle names?
Humphrey Chimpden
Shem Shaun
Augustine Aloysius
2) As a student at University College, Dublin, in 1900, Joyce wrote an admiring article about which great contemporary dramatist?
Henrik Ibsen
George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde
3) In Joyce's short story 'The Dead', what is Gretta reminded of when she hears a guest at a party sing an old folk song, 'The Lass of Aughrim'?
Her husband
Her first love
Her ambition to be an opera singer
4) In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which famous figure from Irish history is the cause of a major row at the Dedalus's house on Christmas Day?
Brian Boru
St Patrick
Parnell
5) In A Portrait of the Artist, Stephen Dedalus's surname is an allusion to which mythological figure?
The man who constructed wings to escape from prison
The man who flew too close to the sun
The man who killed the Minotaur
6) What major health problem did Joyce suffer from for much of his life?
Poor eye sight
Arthritis
Weak heart
7) On what day (now known as 'Bloomsday') do the events of Joyce's Ulysses take place?
8 April 1896
16 June 1904
27 September 1912
8) What is the significance of that day?
It was the day Joyce left Ireland for the last time
It was the day Joyce first went out with his lifelong partner, Nora Barnacle
It was the day Joyce's mother died
9) Who denounced Ulysses as the work of 'a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples'?
The Archbishop of Canterbury
Virginia Woolf
Winston Churchill
10) What is Leopold Bloom's profession in Ulysses?
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Estate agent
Solicitor
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