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Dubliners | After the Race: Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. Interpret the significance of Jimmy’s inconsistent education.

2. Why is it meaningful that Jimmy’s father becomes wealthy only after he abandons his patriotic beliefs?

3. Jimmy’s investment in Segouin’s racecar is ambiguously described. Why has the author failed to provide further details?

4. Interpret the sentence: “Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money.”

5. What’s ironic about Seguouin’s toast to “Humanity”?

6. The story describes the circuitous...


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