Joyce & the Irish
The Collection
Name that Character or Place
Name that Story
Name that Detail
100

Joyce is the oldest of this many children.

What is 12 children?

100

The stories each feature a character who is plagued by this.

What is paralysis?

100

This is the name of the priest in The Sisters.

Who is Father Flynn?

100

This story includes a bazaar.

What is Araby?
100

This is what the market place represents (at the start of the story) in Araby.

What is hope?

200

Joyce is considered a master of this literary technique which mimics the chaotic, continuous, and non-linear flow of human thought. 

What is stream of consciousness?

200

Dubliners was published in this century.

When is the 20th century? (Published in 1914)

200

He is the young sailor who is meant to "save" Eveline and take her away.

Who is Frank?

200

This story features a "blind street"--foreboding the ultimate demise & loss of innocence.

What is Araby?

200

He is the character that says, "gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

Who is the young boy in Araby?

300

This significant event occurs in 1922 in Ireland.

What is the birth of the Irish Free State?

300

These are the short stories which feature a child protagonist.  Name two.

What are The Sisters, An Encounter, and Araby.

300

This is the South American city that contrasts the 'dusty cretonne' of Dublin.  (Featured in Eveline

Where is Buenos Aires?

300

This story features a face that was "truculent, grey, and massive with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur."

What is The Sisters?

300

This stains the priest's robes in The Sisters (representing his hypocrisy & loss of faith).

What is snuff?

400

This unlikely group sent aid to the Irish during the Great Famine. 

Who are the Native Americans? (The Chocktaw Nation specifically)

400

Along with themes and symbols, each of the stories also features this key element.

What is an epiphany moment?

400

She is "like a summons to all [his] foolish blood."

Who is Magnan's sister?

400

This story reminds you to not go looking for adventure in Dublin.  You may not like what you find.

What is The Encounter?

400

This is the food item the boy is offered, though he denies them, in The Sisters. (They are meant to represent his loss of faith.)

What are crackers?
500

This is why Ulysses takes place on June 16th.

Why is to honor when Joyce met his wife, Nora Barnacle?

500

This is the 4th part of the sections that define the collection along with childhood, adolescence, and maturity.

What is public life?

500

This is where the boys in An Encounter plan to go when they ditch school, but never make it to.

Where is the Pigeon House?

500

This story features a trip to Corless's.

What is A Little Cloud?

500

This event marks the climax of Father Flynn's deterioration in The Sisters.

When the chalice breaks?

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