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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What results from Stephen's fall into the ditch?
(a) He talks his parents into taking him home.
(b) He plans a revenge.
(c) He needs help to get out of the ditch.
(d) He becomes seriously ill.

2. Where does Stephen keep himself during the football game?
(a) In the thick of the action
(b) next to the prefect
(c) on the fringes of his line
(d) on the bench

3. What is the rumor about the five boys who ran away from Clongowes?
(a) They stole from the collection box.
(b) They spit in the holy water.
(c) They drank communion wine.
(d) They went to sea.

4. How does Stephen regulate the noise he hears in the refractory?
(a) humming softly to himself
(b) closing and opening the flaps of his ears
(c) putting beans in his ears
(d) shutting out sound by concentration on home

5. Who bumps Stephen into a square ditch of slimy, cold water?
(a) the prefect
(b) a boy named Wells
(c) a boy named Fleming
(d) the language teacher

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stephen see the priests in this first chapter of the book?

2. What limits the omniscience of the narrator of the story?

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

4. What happens to Stephen's hands when Father Dolan does not believe his glasses broke by accident?

5. What results from Stephen's meeting to complain about Father Dolan?

(see the answer key)

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