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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?
(a) to confess his sins daily
(b) to work harder at his lessons
(c) to enter the priesthood
(d) to be a gentleman and a good Catholic

2. What about his life in the past does Stephen now wonder about?
(a) why his family always had such bad luck
(b) why he always thinks too much
(c) why he had been born
(d) why he refused the priesthood

3. What does Stephen find pleasing when he tires of Aristotle and Aquinas?
(a) the crunch of gravel beneath his feet
(b) the songs of the Elizabethans
(c) the newspaper headlines
(d) the ideas he has for his own original work

4. What keeps him from confessing his unworthiness and walking out of the chapel?
(a) the fear of God
(b) the priest is watching him
(c) the peacefulness of the chapel
(d) the Virgin Mary

5. What does Davin proclaim himself to be?
(a) an Irish nationalist
(b) an atheist
(c) a non-practicing Jew
(d) a poor student

Short Answer Questions

1. What suddenly awakens in Stephen as he revels in nature along the breakwater?

2. What is the reference to the Firblog?

3. What does the rector say the retreat signifies?

4. How does Stephen feel about the Virgin?

5. Leaving the director's office, what does Stephen think about the life offered him?

(see the answer key)

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