Question

In James Joyce's story "Araby," the boy sees himself as a questing hero archetype. What motivational forces are acting on him?

Question 1 options:


A. The romantic ideal of the pure maiden inspires the hero to begin his quest.


B. The pure maiden motivates the hero by giving him aid and comfort.


C. The hero returns with the prize the maiden requested and is motivated when she accepts his love.


D. The maiden dashes the hero's hopes when she beats him at arm wrestling and then laughs.

Question 2 (1 point)


In "Araby," James Joyce uses many archetypal images: the innocent youth, the mysterious female, and the distracted adult.
How does the mysterious female affect the meaning of the story?
Question 2 options:


Seeking to win the female's attention and admiration is the protagonist's unattainable goal.


Accepting the female's lack of interest drives the protagonist mad causing him to lose his innocent reputation when he cussed out his friend Mangan in front of the neighborhood priest.


The reader realizes the quest was pointless when Mangan's sister reveals how materialistic she was speaking to the protagonist toward the end of the story, "I know you spent a lot of money on this iPhone, but didn't you know I'd rather have an Android?"


Buying the female a gift despite interference results in a satisfying ending.
Question 3 (1 point)


Read these sentences from "Araby" about the boy's thoughts as he waits for his uncle to come home. Joyce uses the setting to hint to how the boy feels during this particular time in his life.
I mounted the staircase and gained the upper part of the house. The high cold empty gloomy rooms liberated me and I went from room to room singing. From the front window I saw my companions playing below in the street. Their cries reached me weakened and indistinct and, leaning my forehead against the cool glass, I looked over at the dark house where she lived.
What information does this description give about the protagonist?
Question 3 options:


It depicts how the boy is frustrated with his uncle's locking him in the attic for two and a half days.


It describes how the boy seeks higher ground looking down on his friends as he raps Lil Wayne's greatest hits.


It hints at how the boy's confusion about the girl makes him feel inferior to his childish friends.


It hints the boy feels he is outgrowing his friends as he looks down on them playing in the street.
Question 4 (1 point)


Read these excerpts.


excerpt from “Araby” by James Joyce:
The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes, under one of which I found the late tenant’s rusty bicycle-pump.


excerpt from “Genesis 2.9” from the Bible:
The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Why do you think Joyce is making an allusion to this passage in Genesis for Araby?
Question 4 options:


He wants the reader of “Araby” to understand that Dublin, Ireland was a perfect and peaceful location similar to the garden mentioned in Genesis.


He intends to create an allusion to Eden lost, (Eden is where Adam and Eve lost their innocence) and to foreshadow how the boy will lose his innocent view of his love for Mangan's sister.


He chooses the Genesis passage because it mentions four-faced angels riding on wheels within wheels, and the garden in “Araby” has a rusty bicycle pump. Genesis 3:9 I looked, and each of the four cherubim had a wheel beside him, and the wheels sparkled like beryl. 10 All four wheels looked alike and were made the same; each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.


He compares the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in Genesis with the way the protagonist in “Araby” is good to his friends but is very bad when he bites the hand or the former tenant of his house, a priest, while they were wrestling on the bank of the muddy Erie canal during a thunderstorm.

Answer 1

Answer: the correct sequence is 1.- A. The romantic ideal of the pure maiden inspires the hero to begin his quest 2.-Seeking to win the female's attention and admiration is the protagonist's unattainable goal. 3.-It hints at how the boy's confusion about the girl makes him feel inferior to his childish friends. 4.- He intends to create an allusion to Eden lost, (Eden is where Adam and Eve lost their innocence) and to foreshadow how the boy will lose his innocent view of his love for Mangan's sister.

Answer 2

Question 1: Answer A

The romantic ideal of the pure maiden inspires the hero to begin his quest. He goes to the bazaar in order to bring her something.

Question 2:

Seeking to win the female's attention and admiration is the protagonists unattainable goal.

Question 3:

It hints that the boy feels he is outgrowing his friends as he looks down on them playing in the street.

Question 4:

He intends to create an allusion to Eden lost, and to foreshadow how the boy will lose his innocent view of his love for Mangan's sister.