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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is demanded by boys Stephen meets on the road?
(a) to play hookey that afternoon
(b) money for his lunch
(c) identification of his favorite poet
(d) an introduction to Mercedes

2. What has Stephen been able to feel instead of love or hate?
(a) only hunger and thirst
(b) only anxiety and fear
(c) only brief anger and lust
(d) only joy and pain

3. What happens in Stephen's poem about the girl in the tram?
(a) He calls her Mercedes.
(b) He kisses her.
(c) He sits her in his lap.
(d) He helps her off the tram.

4. What are some things Stephen remembers while contemplating his sins?
(a) peeping on girls in their bath
(b) his sordid dreams and the foul letters he had written
(c) the ribald poetery he wrote
(d) the filthy pictures he had drawn

5. After dinner, why does Stephen march out of the house?
(a) to go by the brothels to see if he can overcome his lusts
(b) to find Emma and beg her forgiveness
(c) to return to school and see Father Arnall
(d) to find a chapel in which to confess

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Stephen to recall how saints were tried again and again by sin?

2. How does Stephen begin to see his mother's faith?

3. What is Stephen's condition as he leaves the retreat?

4. Where does Stephen's father want to send him?

5. After Blackrock, where does the family move?

(see the answer key)

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