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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Stephen classify one who plays the role of a believer though he does not believe?
(a) as a Jesuit
(b) as an atheist
(c) as a hypocrite
(d) as an agnostic

2. 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

3. 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

4. What do Stephen and Aubrey do in the meadow?
(a) play football
(b) ride a mare in the field
(c) look for buried treasure
(d) pretend to be pirates

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the rector enters the classroom, what does the boy behind Stephen want him to do?

2. How does Stephen now view the guardians of his boyhood?

3. Who does Stephen tell about many of the longings in his soul?

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

5. What scandalous suggestion is rumored about the five boys who ran away?

(see the answer key)

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