BBL3227-TOPIC 3

Which city is recognized as a UNESCO City of Literature?

• Paris

• Dublin

• London

• Edinburgh

Bloomsday celebrates the life and work of which author?

• James Joyce

• George Bernard Shaw

• William Butler Yeats

• Samuel Beckett

In Dubliners, Joyce described Dublin as the “________ of paralysis.”

• memory

• cure

• symbol

• center

The Liffey River in Joyce’s works symbolizes:

• A route of escape from Ireland

• A living muse woven into Dublin’s identity

• An image of industrial progress

• A border between faith and reason

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales begins its pilgrimage from:

• The Tower of London

• The Tabard Inn, Southwark

• Westminster Abbey

• Oxford Street

The Cook’s Tale is set primarily in:

• Oxford

• Cheapside, London

• Canterbury

• Paris

The flâneur is best defined as:

• A political reformer

• A philosopher of urban economics

• A leisurely urban observer or stroller

• A city architect

The term psychogeography was introduced by:

• Charles Baudelaire

• Walter Benjamin

• Virginia Woolf

• Guy Debord

Who wrote Street Haunting: A London Adventure?

• George Orwell

• Virginia Woolf

• Samuel Beckett

• Oscar Wilde

Balzac’s monumental series of novels about Parisian life is called

• La Comédie humaine

• Les Misérables

• À la recherche du temps perdu

• Madame Bovary