Q 01/05

James Joyce's Ulysses follows three Dubliners over the course of a single day in which year?

A) 1904

B) 1912

C) 1916

D) 1922

Answer · why

A) 1904

That date, 16 June, is now celebrated every year as Bloomsday.

Q 02/05

Ulysses was published in full on 2 February 1922, a date chosen because it was what?

A) Candlemas

B) Joyce's 40th birthday

C) Nora Barnacle's birthday

D) The anniversary of the Easter Rising

Answer · why

B) Joyce's 40th birthday

Sylvia Beach received the first three copies from the printer that morning.

Q 03/05

The title Ulysses is the Latinised name of which hero of Homer's Odyssey?

A) Odysseus

B) Achilles

C) Agamemnon

D) Aeneas

Answer · why

A) Odysseus

Joyce first met the character in Charles Lamb's children's version and wrote a school essay calling him 'My Favourite Hero'.

Q 04/05

Which character in Ulysses corresponds to Telemachus, the hero's son in Homer?

A) Buck Mulligan

B) Stephen Dedalus

C) Simon Dedalus

D) Blazes Boylan

Answer · why

B) Stephen Dedalus

He is the protagonist of Joyce's earlier A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Bloom stands in for Odysseus and Molly for Penelope.

Q 05/05

What is Leopold Bloom's job?

A) Advertising canvasser

B) Schoolteacher

C) Newspaper editor

D) Pharmacist

Answer · why

A) Advertising canvasser

He spends part of the day failing to place an ad at the Freeman's Journal.