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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Stephen and Aubrey Mills formulate?
(a) a blood brother pact
(b) imaginary adventures
(c) a team to make money
(d) ways to meet girls

2. What is a major theme of the book?
(a) Catholic education versus public education
(b) Catholicism versus Protestantism
(c) Coming of age
(d) Irish nationalism and Irish identity

3. What makes Stephen angry with himself?
(a) his youth and foolish impulses
(b) his lack of ambition
(c) his inability to express himself
(d) his lack of proper education

4. What is the name of the school Stephen next enrolls in?
(a) Cleeves
(b) Dublin Polytechnic
(c) Byron Academy
(d) Belvedere

5. What do the sermons do for Stephen?
(a) They give him a good laugh.
(b) They put him to sleep.
(c) They pierce Stephen's clouded mind and sin-numbed soul.
(d) They make him reject the teaching of the Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Stephen and his father go at night by rail?

2. What does Stephen wonder about Father Arnall's getting upset?

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

4. Who bumps Stephen into a square ditch of slimy, cold water?

5. What habit does Stephen hang onto?

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