James Joyce

James Joyce lived from...

• 1867-1925
• 1900-1977
• 1881--1960
• 1882-1941

James Joyce was born in...

• Zurich
• Dublin
• Triest
• Paris

Joyce hoped to study ______________in Paris.

• Philosophy
• History
• Medicine
• Physics

What was the name of James Joyce's wife?

• Nora Barnacle
• Ezra Pound
• Sylvia Beach
• Lucia Joyce

What was one of James Joyce's phobias?

• enclosed spaces
• women
• dogs 
• heights

Facts about Joyce's most famous or landmark novel: A) recounts a single day in Dublin; B) is a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey; C) its central characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and Molly Bloom.

• Finnegan's Wake
• The Dead
• Dubliners
• Ulysses

True or False: Due to the success of nearly every one of his novels, James Joyce became a very wealthy man. 

• True
• False

True or False: Largely due to his father's terrible drinking habits and his financial mismanagement, James Joyce and his many siblings grew up in poverty, a poverty that worsened as time went on. 

• True
• False

James Joyce was an mainly hardworking and often outstanding student who attended______________, which was staffed by ____________________. 

• University College, Cork; Catholic monks
• University College, Dublin; Jesuit Priests
• University of Limerick; Protestant deacons

James Joyce had a complex relationship with his native country, Ireland, because (for one reason)_________________________________. 

• his only stories about Ireland contained mythological creatures, not real people. 
• none of his stories were even about Ireland.
• he did not stay in Ireland his whole life, later living in Zurich, Switzerland, Rome, Italy, and Paris, France. 
• Joyce thought Ireland's people were spoiled and pig-headed.