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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What results from Stephen's meeting to complain about Father Dolan?
(a) The rector agrees to speak to Father Dolan.
(b) The rector excuses Father Dolan.
(c) The rector dismisses Father Dolan.
(d) The rector punishes Stephen again.

3. What limits the omniscience of the narrator of the story?
(a) He speaks with a devoutly religious voice.
(b) He speaks only as an Irish nationalist.
(c) He speaks largely from Stephen's perspective.
(d) He speaks mainly from Stephen's mother's point of view.

4. How does Stephen see himself because of his frequent visits to the brothel?
(a) sunk into a swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth
(b) as an addict who cannot help himself
(c) as a man and no longer a boy
(d) as a liberated Catholic

5. What is a major theme of the book?
(a) Irish nationalism and Irish identity
(b) Catholicism versus Protestantism
(c) Catholic education versus public education
(d) Coming of age

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the older boys opted for the flogging?

2. At school, what is the unusual word Stephen sees carved into a desk?

3. Although he purposefully enters the brothel, how does he feel later?

4. What habit does Stephen hang onto?

5. What do the older men Stephen walks with usually talk about?

(see the answer key)

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