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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps him from confessing his unworthiness and walking out of the chapel?
(a) the Virgin Mary
(b) the priest is watching him
(c) the fear of God
(d) the peacefulness of the chapel

2. What sensation does Stephen get while thinking back to Clongowes?
(a) He feels like the retreat is like falling into a ditch.
(b) He feels all grown up.
(c) He feels his soul become childlike.
(d) He feels ashamed of his father's financial difficulties.

3. How does Stephen come to view all of creation?
(a) as an expression of God's love and power
(b) as a reminder of the lust in the world
(c) as the evolution of the species
(d) as an accident of nature

4. When the rector enters the classroom, what does the boy behind Stephen want him to do?
(a) to lead a salute to the rector
(b) to pretend to plug up his ears
(c) to put an apple on the rector's desk
(d) to ask the rector a difficult question

5. What is the purpose of the trip that causes Stephen's father to sip from his flask?
(a) Stephen's grandmother's funeral
(b) a job interview
(c) the auction of his property
(d) a visit to a clinic

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stephen's most troubling problem as he sees it?

2. What begins to needle him and cause minor disruptions to his devotions?

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

4. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?

5. Why does Uncle Charles no longer walk to the shops?

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