A. the race for more modes of transportation
B. the decline of the Irish race
C. the race to establish an empire
D. the race for Ireland’s welfare
Related Mcqs:
- In Ulysses, Joyce retells which ancient story ?
A. Homer’s The Iliad
B. Homer’s The Odyssey
C. Virgil’s The Aeneid
D. Sophocles’s Antigone - The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. “Faith, sir,” replied the story-teller, “as to that matter, I don’t believe one half of it myself.” This passage exemplifies_____________?
A. Narrative frame
B. Hortatory sermon
C. Snaring
D. Jamming - Who write the story “Story Teller” ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas Grey
D. Saki - In The Dubliners, which literary device does Joyce use most frequently ?
A. acatalectic
B. chiasmus
C. fantasy
D. pentameter - In The Dubliners, which negative characteristic(s) does Joyce associate with Dublin as a place ?
A. commonness
B. boredom
C. backwardness
D. All of the Above - How does Joyce parallel Leopold and Stephen ?
A. both are mature
B. both tend to be cheerful
C. both are artists
D. both dislike music - In Ulysses, which experimental technique(s) does Joyce use ?
A. puns
B. parodies
C. unconventional syntax
D. All of the Above - In Finnegans Wake, to which text(s) does Joyce make an allusion ?
A. the Book of the Dead
B. the Bible
C. Vico’s La Scienza Nuova
D. All of the Above - In what context does Joyce use the term “amor matris,” or motherly love ?
A. in The Dubliners, Chandler uses it to describe family relationships
B. in The Dubliners, Gabriel uses it in his discussions about death
C. in Ulysses, Stephen uses it in his lectures on art
D. in Ulysses, Leopold uses it to describe his personal identity - In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love ?
A. he refers to the mythical Daedalus
B. he uses an allusion to the mythical Odysseus
C. he uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult
D. he refers to the Oedipal myth
