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"Araby" by James Joyce

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What main Literary device can we see in this line?

"The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces."

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Personification

c)

Auditory Image

d)

Irony

2.

Why did the narrator like the books?

a)

The authors were his favourites

b)

He just liked books

c)

They were old

d)

He was a writer

3.

Who would they all wait for to be called?

a)

Mangan

b)

Mangan's sister

c)

Mangan's mom

d)

The narrator's sister

4.

What main device can we see in this line? "I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."

a)

Auditory Imagery

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

5.

When did the girl's name came to the narrator's mind?

a)

When he was eating

b)

When he was praying

c)

When he was playing

d)

When he was reading

6.

Who is Araby?

a)

The girl

b)

A place in Dublin

c)

A bazaar

d)

A restaurant

7.

How do we call this literary device? "The light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck(...)"

a)

Visual Imagery

b)

Auditory Imagery

c)

Metaphor

d)

Repetition

8.

How old we could say the narrator is?

a)

He must be 20

b)

He must be 9-12

c)

He must be a teenager

d)

He must be 25 or more

9.

Why can't the boy go to the bazaar finally?

a)

Because there is a tea party

b)

Because his aunt did not let him

c)

Because his friends don't want to go

d)

Because his uncle didn't give him money

10.

Who does the narrator live with?

a)

His friends

b)

Mother and Father

c)

Aunt and Uncle

d)

Grandma

11.

What does the final line mean? "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

a)

That the boy stole something

b)

That the boy was sad

c)

That he didn't have enough money

d)

That he had bought the vase