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Bloomsday, the annual celebration of Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses, is a fine day to remind yourself of his genius. Test your knowledge with our 16 questions for 16 June

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 June 2009 09.24 BST

Statue of James Joyce at Fluntern cemetery, Zurich. Photograph: Sebastian Derungs/Reuters

1.      1. What was the significance of 16 June?

1.  
   1. It was the day on which Dubliners was finally accepted for publication  
   2. It was the date of his confirmation  
   3. It was the day of Joyce’s first date with his lifelong partner, Nora Barnacle  
   4. It was his birthday  

2.      2. Which playwright did Joyce hero-worship?

1.  
   1. Ben Jonson  
   2. Henrik Ibsen  
   3. George Bernard Shaw  
   4. George Buchner  

3.      3. Which of the following is not a quote from Joyce?

1.  
   1. To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.  
   2. Paternity is a legal fiction.  
   3. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.  
   4. History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.  

4.      4. What did Joyce refer to as “electricity” and “beefsteak”?

1.  
   1. Dante and Chaucer  
   2. Ireland and Italy  
   3. Woman and man  
   4. White and red wine  

5.      5. The framework of Finnegans Wake is based on a cyclical theory of history borrowed from which thinker?

1.  
   1. Friedrich Nietzsche  
   2. Giambattista Vico  
   3. Homer  
   4. Arthur Schopenhauer  

6.      6. Joyce is often accused of being verbose and obscure. Yet which work did he claim to have written “in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard”?

1.  
   1. Dubliners  
   2. Exiles  
   3. Chamber Music  
   4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  

7.      7. When was the English ban on Ulysses lifted?

1.  
   1. 1924  
   2. 1936  
   3. 1945  
   4. 1963  

8.      8. Which author admired Joyce so much that he not only worked as his secretary but is said to have crippled his much larger feet by wearing identical shoes?

1.  
   1. WH Auden  
   2. Samuel Beckett  
   3. TS Eliot  
   4. Christopher Isherwood  

9.      9. Which novel did Joyce call “the English Ulysses”?

1.  
   1. Robinson Crusoe  
   2. Clarissa  
   3. Vanity Fair
   4. Dombey & Son  

10.  10. Who was brave or foolhardy enough to edit Finnegans Wake down into a shorter edition?

1.  
   1. David Lodge  
   2. Anthony Burgess  
   3. Alain de Botton  
   4. Bono from U2  

11.  11. In the Homeric parallels of Ulysses, which character is Telemachus to Bloom’s Ulysses?

1.  
   1. Stephen Dedalus
   2. Buck Mulligan  
   3. Stephen Hero  
   4. Blazes Boylan  

12.  12. Joyce died less than two years after publishing his mammoth “night-language” dream-text, Finnegans Wake. What were his hints about his next project?

1.  
   1. That it would make Finnegans Wake look easy  
   2. That it would be a children’s book  
   3. That it would be short, simple and a novel of reawakening  
   4. That it would do for Trieste what Ulysses did for Dublin  

13.  13. What is the final word in Ulysses?

1.  
   1. Love  
   2. Sex  
   3. Death  
   4. Yes  

14.  14. “The only demand I make of my reader,” Joyce once told an interviewer, is that …

1.  
   1. “He knows how to drink and make love as well as read.”  
   2. “He finishes them.”  
   3. “He should devote his whole life to reading my works.”  
   4. “He acknowledge my genius, even though he will never understand it.”  

15.  15. The last word in Finnegans Wake is

1.  
   1. No  
   2. Jaysus  
   3. Morning!  
   4. The  

16.  16. “I guess the man’s a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, hasn’t he?” Whose critical verdict?

1.  
1. Nora Joyce  
2. The Queen Mother  
3. Val Doonican  
4. TS Eliot

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