Few novels and their places are as tightly intertwined with one another as James Joyce’s 1922 modernist masterpiece “Ulysses” and Eire’s capital metropolis of Dublin. The truth is, Joyce as soon as instructed a pal, “I wish to give an image of Dublin so full that if town all of the sudden disappeared from the earth it could possibly be reconstructed out of my guide.”
“Ulysses,” divided into episodes that roughly parallel Homer’s “Odyssey,” facilities on a person named Leopold Bloom going concerning the metropolis on June 16, 1904. Dozens of different characters additionally inhabit the story, together with Buck Mulligan, Stephen Dedalus and Molly Bloom. Literary followers usually go to places within the novel yearly on what has turn into “Bloomsday” and this week’s quiz assessments your information of Dublin-area landmarks talked about within the guide.
To play, simply make your choice within the multiple-choice listing and the right reply shall be revealed. Hyperlinks to extra data are listed on the finish of the quiz in case you’d love to do some additional studying. And don’t neglect: A brand new quiz arrives each week on the Books web page and former quizzes may be discovered right here.
