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  What name did Anthony Burgess give to the bizarre, convoluted language, replete with portmanteau works and complex puns, in which James Joyce wrote Finnegans Wake? see if you know the answer
Answered: 4563 times
Correct: 2805 times (44.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1758 times (27.6%)
Skipped: 1810 times (28.4%)
  In 1922, two of the most talented writers of their day met in Paris, and spoke no more than a few words to each other. One of them commented that the other 'wanted to talk about dukes; I wanted to talk about chambermaids.' Who were they?
Marcel ProustVirginia WoolfEzra PoundJames Joyce 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 1105 times
Correct: 513 times (32.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 592 times (37.6%)
Skipped: 470 times (29.8%)
  Which of the following is NOT an episode in James Joyce's Ulysses? see if you know the answer
Answered: 169 times
Correct: 88 times (28.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 81 times (26.2%)
Skipped: 140 times (45.3%)
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What does Leopold Bloom have in his pocket? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 198 times
Correct: 47 times (14.2%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 151 times (45.5%)
Skipped: 134 times (40.4%)
  What is the final short story in the 1914 collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce? see if you know the answer
Answered: 18405 times
Correct: 11293 times (37.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 7112 times (23.7%)
Skipped: 11605 times (38.7%)
  Which of the following was not written by James Joyce? see if you know the answer
Answered: 22844 times
Correct: 18428 times (69.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 4416 times (16.7%)
Skipped: 3557 times (13.5%)
 
"To be or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life" 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 284 times
Correct: 104 times (30.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 180 times (51.9%)
Skipped: 63 times (18.2%)
  Colm Tóibín's The Master is a fictionalized biography of ... see if you know the answer
Answered: 167 times
Correct: 95 times (36.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 72 times (27.7%)
Skipped: 93 times (35.8%)
  Whose last words were: "Does nobody understand?" see if you know the answer
Answered: 211 times
Correct: 76 times (25.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 135 times (45.2%)
Skipped: 88 times (29.4%)
  How many days pass in James Joyce"Ulysses?"
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Answered: 161 times
Correct: 134 times (71.3%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 27 times (14.4%)
Skipped: 27 times (14.4%)
  What is the name of the person whose funeral is attended near the beginning of James Joyce's Ulysses? see if you know the answer
Answered: 875 times
Correct: 312 times (20.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 563 times (37.0%)
Skipped: 648 times (42.5%)
  In Ulysses by James Joyce, with whom is Leopold Bloom's wife Molly having an affair? see if you know the answer
Answered: 184 times
Correct: 102 times (35.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 82 times (28.5%)
Skipped: 104 times (36.1%)
  In Ulysses by James Joyce, how much did Bloom spend on 16 June 1904? see if you know the answer
Answered: 80 times
Correct: 38 times (31.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 42 times (34.4%)
Skipped: 42 times (34.4%)
A short story by [a:James Joyce|5144|James Joyce|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183237775p2/5144.jpg] is called? A short story by James Joyce is called? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1606 times
Correct: 831 times (32.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 775 times (30.1%)
Skipped: 970 times (37.7%)
  What is the last story of James Joyce's Dubliners ?

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Answered: 1717 times
Correct: 1089 times (41.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 628 times (23.8%)
Skipped: 919 times (34.9%)
  Which volume by James Joyce features the phrase "Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 305 times
Correct: 184 times (27.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 121 times (18.3%)
Skipped: 357 times (53.9%)
  Which volume by James Joyce features the phrase "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 293 times
Correct: 145 times (22.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 148 times (22.9%)
Skipped: 353 times (54.6%)
  Which volume by James Joyce features the phrase "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 226 times
Correct: 85 times (17.0%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 141 times (28.3%)
Skipped: 273 times (54.7%)
  Which volume by James Joyce features the phrase "A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 253 times
Correct: 167 times (31.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 86 times (16.4%)
Skipped: 270 times (51.6%)
  James Joyce's Finnegans Wake ends with what word? see if you know the answer
Answered: 270 times
Correct: 73 times (11.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 197 times (31.0%)
Skipped: 365 times (57.5%)
  James Joyce's Ulysses ends with what word? see if you know the answer
Answered: 436 times
Correct: 268 times (35.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 168 times (22.3%)
Skipped: 317 times (42.1%)
  What is the text of the telegram Stephen Dedalus received while in Paris? (Ulysses)James Joyce see if you know the answer
Answered: 27 times
Correct: 8 times (20.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 19 times (48.7%)
Skipped: 12 times (30.8%)
  Which of the subatomic particles listed below gets its name from a neologism in Joyce's Finnegans Wake?James Joyce see if you know the answer
Answered: 27 times
Correct: 20 times (50.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 7 times (17.5%)
Skipped: 13 times (32.5%)
  In Ulysses, who gives birth at the Lying-in Hospital in Holles Street?James Joyce see if you know the answer
Answered: 20 times
Correct: 9 times (25.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 11 times (30.6%)
Skipped: 16 times (44.4%)
  In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, what are the colors of Dante's brushes?James Joyce see if you know the answer
Answered: 34 times
Correct: 24 times (35.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 10 times (14.9%)
Skipped: 33 times (49.3%)
  Which of the titles listed below is mentioned in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as one of Stephen Dedalus's favorites?James Joyce see if you know the answer
Answered: 37 times
Correct: 15 times (26.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 22 times (39.3%)
Skipped: 19 times (33.9%)
  With which famous writer was Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, infatauted (though her love was not returned, which caused relations between her father and the said writer to sour)? see if you know the answer
Answered: 120 times
Correct: 44 times (24.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 76 times (42.2%)
Skipped: 60 times (33.3%)
  Which author's body was moved nine years after it was buried? see if you know the answer
Answered: 117 times
Correct: 46 times (27.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 71 times (41.8%)
Skipped: 53 times (31.2%)
  Which writer was responsible for introducing the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy to the English-speaking world during the 1920s? see if you know the answer
Answered: 81 times
Correct: 34 times (22.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 47 times (30.9%)
Skipped: 71 times (46.7%)
  Two of the most famous writers of all-time are believed to have died on the same day - which two? see if you know the answer
Answered: 804 times
Correct: 404 times (37.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 400 times (36.6%)
Skipped: 288 times (26.4%)
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