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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 the boys at school tease Stephen about?
(a) writing letters to Eileen
(b) wearing short pants
(c) wetting his bed
(d) kissing his mother before bedtime

2. What does Heron claim Lord Byron to be?
(a) to be a hack writer
(b) to be an imposter
(c) to be an immoral heretic
(d) to be a Frenchman

3. What is Stephen's favorite reading material?
(a) The Count of Monte Cristo
(b) comic books
(c) The Pickwick Papers
(d) the newspaper

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

5. What political figure becomes a topic of conversation and disagreement among the adults?
(a) Cromwell
(b) Parnell
(c) Goldsmith
(d) Churchill

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Stephen imagine he will live when he gets married?

2. What happens in Stephen's poem about the girl in the tram?

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

4. How does Stephen follow the adult conversation at Christmas?

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

(see the answer key)

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