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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Stephen like in Doctor Cornwell's Spelling Book?
(a) nice sentences
(b) funny illustrations
(c) margin notes he wrote
(d) large print

3. Who does Stephen suspect is also in the audience the night of the play?
(a) Josephine
(b) the girl from the tram
(c) Mercedes
(d) Margaret

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

5. What happens when summer vacation is over for Stephen?
(a) Stephen's family moves again.
(b) Stephen works out on the track with Mike.
(c) Stephen finds a steady job.
(d) Stephen does not return to Clongowes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets upset when several of the boys cannot answer a question correctly in Latin class?

2. Who is Mike Flynn?

3. Where does Stephen imagine he will live when he gets married?

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

5. What is a major theme of the book?

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