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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What scandalous suggestion is rumored about the five boys who ran away?
(a) They were caught peeping into ladies' bedrooms.
(b) They were caught "smugging" in the square with two younger boys.
(c) They were showing their bottoms to ladies on the street.
(d) They had smuggled a prostitute into the school

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

3. What does Stephen complain about to the rector?
(a) Father Dolan interfering in Father Arnall's class
(b) broken blood vessels in his hands
(c) unjust punishment
(d) broken fingers

4. Why does Uncle Charles no longer walk to the shops?
(a) He has a broken leg.
(b) He has grown too senile.
(c) He is ashamed of his clothes.
(d) He drives a new carriage.

5. What does Stephen pretend not to notice when his mother says goodbye to him at school?
(a) that her hat was on backwards
(b) that she was going to cry
(c) that she was in a hurry to leave
(d) that she wore too much perfume

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Stephen exempted from his classes?

2. What happens when summer vacation is over for Stephen?

3. What is demanded by boys Stephen meets on the road?

4. What is the rumor about the five boys who ran away from Clongowes?

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

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