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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Stephen follow the adult conversation at Christmas?
(a) He wonders why adults like to talk so much.
(b) He takes in everything and understands.
(c) He begins to formulate new political ideas.
(d) He does not understand fully what they talk about.

2. What choice is given two of the older boys after the group of runaways is returned to Clongowes?
(a) a choice between flogging and expulsion
(b) a choice between flogging or the stocks
(c) a choice between flogging or the gauntlet
(d) a choice between flogging or public humiliation

3. 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

4. Who suggests that Stephen broke his glasses himself in order to get out of his schoolwork?
(a) Tusker Boyle
(b) Father Dolan
(c) Father Arnall
(d) the bully Wells

5. Who gets upset when several of the boys cannot answer a question correctly in Latin class?
(a) Father O'Casey
(b) Father Dolan
(c) Father Parnell
(d) Father Arnall

Short Answer Questions

1. What limits the omniscience of the narrator of the story?

2. What results when Stephen is bullied again?

3. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?

4. Why is Stephen exempted from his classes?

5. What was Stephen's early song?

(see the answer key)

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