Ulysses Quizzes

Ulysses Quiz 1

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

Elsinore Tower

Martello Tower

Tower of Dublin
2 What University does Haines attend?
Irish National University

Oxford University

Trinity University

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

The Ship

Kelly's

O'Kiernan's Moral Pub
4 Where does Mr. Deasy want his letter printed?
The Dublin Paper

Irish National Telegraph

The Morning Telegraph

The Evening 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?"
Memory

Dublin

Athens

Philosophy
7 What are the imagined contents of Florence MacCabe's bag?
Midwifery equipment

Lemon soap

A dead fetus

Oranges from Gibraltar
8 What was Kevin Egan's presumed political affiliation?
Labour

Communist

Socialist

Sinn Fein
9 What is the name of the dog that is running along Sandymount strand?
Tatters

Florin

Proteus

Dogsbody
10 What is the name of the painting hanging over the Bloom's bed?
Cave of Calypso

Seven Eccles

Bath of the Nymph

Rock of Gibraltar
11 Where was Molly born?
The Levant

Gibraltar

Hungary

Spain
12 What is the name of the butcher shop where Bloom purchases his breakfast?
Agendath

Dlugacz

Moore

Eccles
13 To whom does Martha Clifford write her letters?
Henry Flower

Leopold Bloom

M'Coy

A.E.
14 Who detains Leopold Bloom in conversation?
M'Coy

Virag

Henry Flower

F. W. Sweny
15 What is Leopold Bloom's ancestral name?
Blumstein

Agendath

Virag

Blumenthal
16 How did Reuben J. Dodd's son attempt suicide?
Gunshot

By taking poison

Drowning

By slitting his wrists
17 What is littering the seats of the carriage Bloom takes to Glasnevin?
Sand

Ribbons

Paper

Crumbs
18 What does Simon Dedalus perceive to be the chief source of Stephen's corruption?
Stephen's thoughts of his dead mother

Stephen's friendship with Mulligan

Stephen's obsession with Aristotle

Stephen's trip to Paris
19 What advertising project takes Bloom to the National Library?
Wisdom Hely's

Alexander Keyes

Kilkenny Press

Plumtree's Potted Meat
20 Who does Lenehan suspect will win the afternoon horserace?
Coloured Stone

Throwaway

Keyes

Sceptre
21 What is the name of the restaurant where Leopold Bloom thinks to himself: "Out. I hate dirty eaters."?
Burton

The Purefoy

Hely's

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

Plumtree's Potted Meat

A seedcake

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

They both own pawn shops.

They are both dead.

They are insane.
24 How does Mulligan refer to Leopold Bloom at the end of "Scylla and Charybdis"?
"The Wandering Jew"

"The mesial groove"

"The limp father of thousands"

"The Greek of the Greeks"
25 Upon exiting the National Library, what is Mulligan wearing on his head?
A stolen yellow bonnet

A top-hat

A Panama Hat

A thin novel

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

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Which of the following statements best express the central ideas of this text?

You have the title of Letter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman yet your quetion relates to Booth.

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Ulysses

by James Joyce

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