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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) his sordid dreams and the foul letters he had written
(b) peeping on girls in their bath
(c) the ribald poetery he wrote
(d) the filthy pictures he had drawn

2. What is detailed by cramped conditions, the darkness, the stench, the fires, the enraged howls and suffering screams of the damned, and the mocking of devils?
(a) the heads of people who willfully sin
(b) the treatment Jesus endured at the hands of man
(c) the prison for those who commit murder
(d) the eternal suffering in hell

3. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?
(a) to enter the priesthood
(b) to work harder at his lessons
(c) to confess his sins daily
(d) to be a gentleman and a good Catholic

4. What choice is given two of the older boys after the group of runaways is returned to Clongowes?
(a) a choice between flogging and expulsion
(b) a choice between flogging or the gauntlet
(c) a choice between flogging or public humiliation
(d) a choice between flogging or the stocks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is demanded by boys Stephen meets on the road?

2. When does the preacher say the soul of the sinner is judged, and the time for repentance is passed?

3. How does Stephen feel about the Virgin?

4. What public transportation does Stephen take?

5. After the punishment, what do the boys urge Stephen to do?

(see the answer key)

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