Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Study Guide

1. James Joyce was born in

• nineteenth century Canada
• twentieth century England
• nineteenth century America
• nineteenth century Ireland

2. Joyce was an important pioneer of the narrative technique known as

• dramatic montage
• conditioned genesis
• stream of tension
• stream of consciousness

3. The name "Dedalus" makes allusion to

• the mythological figure who solved the riddle of the sphinx
• the mythological figure who flew too close to the sun and drowned in the ocean
• the mythological figure who devoured his own daughter to prolong his life
• the mythological figure who escaped from his island prison by constructing a pair of wings

4. James Joyce was raised in a family that was deeply

• Atheistic
• Protestant
• Catholic
• Buddhist

5. In 1922, James Joyce published a book that some hail as the greatest masterpiece of twentieth century English literature. That book was

• <i>Finnegan's Wake</i>
• <i>Ulysses</i>
• <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>
• <i>Dubliners</i>

6. When describing the opening of this novel, one is most likely to talk about

• Catholic philosophy, naturalism, and terse sentences
• Sensual imagery and stream of consciousness
• Marxism and absurdism
• Scholasticism, absurdism

7. Stephen's father is

• both financially inept and a painter
• a financial genius
• financially inept
• a painter

8. Stephen is the

• only child
• youngest of roughly ten children
• oldest of roughly ten children
• only son in a family with eleven daughters

9. As a young boy, Stephen attends

• the Jesuit school of Clongowes
• Eaton
• the public school of Dublin Boy's Academy
• the Jesuit school of St. Crustacio

10. As a young boy, Stephen is

• athletic and confident
• erudite and cocky
• insensitive and rambunctious
• unathletic and shy