Verifica: James Joyce, i "Dubliners" e "Araby"

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By which author was James Joyce invited in Paris in 1920?

Samuel Beckett.

Ezra Pound.

Marcel Proust.

Vladimir Nabokov.
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Which was the original title of "The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"?
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Which other modernist writer died in 1941, the same year of Joyce’s death, setting the end of Modernism?
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What does Dublin symbolise for Joyce in “The Dubliners”?

The new freedom for Ireland from England.

The modernity and the technological progress.

The centre of paralysis of his country and of his life.

The end of innocence and the cruel reality of life.
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The main character of “The Dubliners” is a boy, followed by the writer from his childhood to his maturity?

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What represents the final climax of each short story in “The Dubliners”?
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The narrator of “Araby” in “The Dubliners” is the main character of the short story and he’s a young boy in love.

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Which is the epiphany in “Araby”?

The understanding that love is just an illusion.

The passing of time and the close end of adolescence.

The beauty of love, which allows a change in everyone’s life.

The necessity of every man of having his own freedom and indipendence.
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The short story “Araby” presents one of the main themes of “The Dubliners”: the impossibility of change.

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What is the meaning of “Araby” in the title?

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