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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What results from Stephen's fall into the ditch?
(a) He plans a revenge.
(b) He becomes seriously ill.
(c) He talks his parents into taking him home.
(d) He needs help to get out of the ditch.

3. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?
(a) They plan to send him to England to study.
(b) His father has converted to Protestantism.
(c) From then on he will be home schooled.
(d) It signifies a change in his father's finances.

4. Where does Stephen keep himself during the football game?
(a) on the bench
(b) next to the prefect
(c) In the thick of the action
(d) on the fringes of his line

5. What does Stephen do about new words he hears the adults use?
(a) interrupts conversation to ask their meanings
(b) makes a list but does not spell them correctly
(c) tries to use them in his own conversation
(d) figures out their meanings

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Stephen see the priests in this first chapter of the book?

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

4. What does Stephen pretend not to notice when his mother says goodbye to him at school?

5. Which of the older boys opted for the flogging?

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