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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephen feel by allowing sin to creep near to him before resisting it at the last moment?
(a) a sense of power
(b) an intolerable weakness
(c) like playing a joke on the devil
(d) a terrible fear

2. What does Stephen discover when he returns home from the director's office?
(a) His father is in the hospital.
(b) The family is being forced to move again.
(c) They are all excited about his becoming a priest.
(d) Uncle Charles has died.

3. What does Davin proclaim himself to be?
(a) an atheist
(b) a non-practicing Jew
(c) a poor student
(d) an Irish nationalist

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

5. How does Stephen describe art to his friend, Lynch?
(a) a profound understanding of life
(b) that beauty which awakens or induces an esthetic stasis
(c) words and pictures drawn from the real world
(d) keys to unlock the prison of our sould

Short Answer Questions

1. What sensation does Stephen get while thinking back to Clongowes?

2. How does Stephen consider the English language?

3. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?

4. What do various places in the city evoke in Stephen as he passes them by?

5. What gives Stephen a second clue that all is not well financially with the family?

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