Ulysses Quizzes

Ulysses Quiz 1

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

Martello Tower

Tower of Dublin

Elsinore Tower
2 What University does Haines attend?
Oxford University

Irish National University

Trinity 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?
The Evening Telegraph

The Dublin Paper

Irish National Telegraph

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

Nestor

Himself

His grandmother
6 What does Stephen describe as "glorious, pious and immortal?"
Athens

Memory

Dublin

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

Lemon soap

A dead fetus

Midwifery equipment
8 What was Kevin Egan's presumed political affiliation?
Sinn Fein

Communist

Labour

Socialist
9 What is the name of the dog that is running along Sandymount strand?
Dogsbody

Proteus

Florin

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

Seven Eccles

Rock of Gibraltar

Bath of the Nymph
11 Where was Molly born?
Gibraltar

Hungary

Spain

The Levant
12 What is the name of the butcher shop where Bloom purchases his breakfast?
Dlugacz

Agendath

Moore

Eccles
13 To whom does Martha Clifford write her letters?
M'Coy

A.E.

Henry Flower

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

M'Coy

Henry Flower

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

Agendath

Virag

Blumstein
16 How did Reuben J. Dodd's son attempt suicide?
By slitting his wrists

Gunshot

Drowning

By taking poison
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 thoughts of his dead mother

Stephen's obsession with Aristotle

Stephen's trip to Paris

Stephen's friendship with Mulligan
19 What advertising project takes Bloom to the National Library?
Wisdom Hely's

Plumtree's Potted Meat

Kilkenny Press

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

Coloured Stone

Sceptre

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

The Purefoy

Nosey Flynn's

Burton
22 What is the food that Molly and Leopold Bloom shared mouth to mouth at Ben Howth?
A seedcake

A pomegranate

Plumtree's Potted Meat

An apple
23 What do Denis Breen and Mrs. Cunningham have in common?
They both own pawn shops.

They are dissenters.

They are both dead.

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

"The mesial groove"

"The Greek of the Greeks"

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

A stolen yellow bonnet

A Panama Hat

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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