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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in Stephen's poem about the girl in the tram?
(a) He sits her in his lap.
(b) He calls her Mercedes.
(c) He kisses her.
(d) He helps her off the tram.

2. Going through all these strict devotions, how does Stephen come to feel about himself?
(a) as an unworthy penitent
(b) as newly born and as having a virtuous soul
(c) as a person burdened with grave responsibility
(d) as a serious candidate for the priesthood

3. How does Stephen begin to see his mother's faith?
(a) as being the cause of his father's failures
(b) as fading away with the family trials
(c) as being disloyal toward him
(d) as being insincere and empty

4. While onstage delivering his lines, who does Stephen see in the audience?
(a) the girl from the tram
(b) Uncle Charles and Dante
(c) his father with a strange woman
(d) Father Arnall

5. Who is Mike Flynn?
(a) The man who buys Stephen's father's business.
(b) The man Stephen goes to work for.
(c) The man who who supervises Stephen's runs around the track.
(d) The man Stephen's father works for.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Stephen and Aubrey do in the meadow?

2. What do Stephen and Aubrey Mills formulate?

3. Who does Stephen know for sure is in the audience for a play he is in at school?

4. What are some things Stephen remembers while contemplating his sins?

5. What suddenly awakens in Stephen as he revels in nature along the breakwater?

(see the answer key)

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