Ulysses Quizzes

Ulysses Quiz 1

1 What is the name of the tower in which Stephen Dedalus lives?
Keyes Tower

Martello Tower

Elsinore Tower

Tower of Dublin
2 What University does Haines attend?
Trinity University

Irish National University

Oxford University

Cambridge University
3 What is the name of the bar where Stephen Dedalus and Buck Mulligan planned to meet at noon?
Kelly's

Rosevean

The Ship

O'Kiernan's Moral Pub
4 Where does Mr. Deasy want his letter printed?
Irish National Telegraph

The Evening Telegraph

The Dublin Paper

The Morning Telegraph
5 In Stephen's riddle, who does the fox bury?
Himself

His grandmother

Nestor

His mother
6 What does Stephen describe as "glorious, pious and immortal?"
Dublin

Philosophy

Athens

Memory
7 What are the imagined contents of Florence MacCabe's bag?
Oranges from Gibraltar

Lemon soap

Midwifery equipment

A dead fetus
8 What was Kevin Egan's presumed political affiliation?
Communist

Sinn Fein

Socialist

Labour
9 What is the name of the dog that is running along Sandymount strand?
Florin

Tatters

Proteus

Dogsbody
10 What is the name of the painting hanging over the Bloom's bed?
Rock of Gibraltar

Bath of the Nymph

Seven Eccles

Cave of Calypso
11 Where was Molly born?
Hungary

Spain

The Levant

Gibraltar
12 What is the name of the butcher shop where Bloom purchases his breakfast?
Moore

Dlugacz

Eccles

Agendath
13 To whom does Martha Clifford write her letters?
A.E.

Leopold Bloom

Henry Flower

M'Coy
14 Who detains Leopold Bloom in conversation?
F. W. Sweny

Henry Flower

M'Coy

Virag
15 What is Leopold Bloom's ancestral name?
Blumstein

Virag

Agendath

Blumenthal
16 How did Reuben J. Dodd's son attempt suicide?
By taking poison

By slitting his wrists

Drowning

Gunshot
17 What is littering the seats of the carriage Bloom takes to Glasnevin?
Paper

Crumbs

Ribbons

Sand
18 What does Simon Dedalus perceive to be the chief source of Stephen's corruption?
Stephen's trip to Paris

Stephen's friendship with Mulligan

Stephen's obsession with Aristotle

Stephen's thoughts of his dead mother
19 What advertising project takes Bloom to the National Library?
Kilkenny Press

Wisdom Hely's

Plumtree's Potted Meat

Alexander Keyes
20 Who does Lenehan suspect will win the afternoon horserace?
Keyes

Throwaway

Sceptre

Coloured Stone
21 What is the name of the restaurant where Leopold Bloom thinks to himself: "Out. I hate dirty eaters."?
Nosey Flynn's

The Purefoy

Burton

Hely's
22 What is the food that Molly and Leopold Bloom shared mouth to mouth at Ben Howth?
An apple

A seedcake

Plumtree's Potted Meat

A pomegranate
23 What do Denis Breen and Mrs. Cunningham have in common?
They are both dead.

They are dissenters.

They are insane.

They both own pawn shops.
24 How does Mulligan refer to Leopold Bloom at the end of "Scylla and Charybdis"?
"The limp father of thousands"

"The Wandering Jew"

"The Greek of the Greeks"

"The mesial groove"
25 Upon exiting the National Library, what is Mulligan wearing on his head?
A thin novel

A Panama Hat

A stolen yellow bonnet

A top-hat

In context, a "cabman's shelter" is a coffee house.

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Ulysses

by James Joyce

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