A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Study Guide

by James Joyce

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Quiz 1

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

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