Q 01/05

Ulysses began as an idea for one more short story in which earlier James Joyce collection?

A) Chamber Music

B) Dubliners

C) Exiles

D) Stephen Hero

Answer · why

B) Dubliners

Dubliners was to have had a last story called 'Ulysses', about a Dublin man named Hunter; Joyce never wrote it, and over the next fifteen years the id...

Q 02/05

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

A) His wedding anniversary

B) Joyce's 40th birthday

C) Nora Barnacle's birthday

D) The anniversary of the Easter Rising

Answer · why

B) Joyce's 40th birthday

Joyce's 40th birthday was the day he had resolved the book must appear, and his publisher had the first copies from the printer in her hands that very...

Q 03/05

Ulysses is the Roman name for which hero of Homer's epics?

A) Odysseus

B) Achilles

C) Agamemnon

D) Aeneas

Answer · why

A) Odysseus

Odysseus took ten years to sail home from Troy; Joyce shrinks the voyage to one ordinary day's walk around Dublin.

Q 04/05

In the 'Ithaca' episode of Ulysses, what drink does Bloom make for Stephen when he finally brings him home?

A) Cocoa

B) Coffee

C) Hot whiskey

D) Tea

Answer · why

A) Cocoa

Cocoa, shared at the kitchen table, is as close as the two men come: after a whole day of converging, Stephen turns down the offer of a bed and walks ...

Q 05/05

In Ulysses, what is Leopold Bloom's job?

A) Advertising canvasser

B) Schoolteacher

C) Newspaper editor

D) Solicitor's clerk

Answer · why

A) Advertising canvasser

Advertising canvasser: he spends part of the day trying to place an ad for the merchant Alexander Keyes in the Freeman's Journal, only for the editor ...