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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Stephen when he goes to confess his terrible sin?
(a) already 21
(b) just 14
(c) only 16
(d) about 19

2. 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

3. Who does Stephen suspect is also in the audience the night of the play?
(a) Margaret
(b) Josephine
(c) Mercedes
(d) the girl from the tram

4. What does Stephen feel by allowing sin to creep near to him before resisting it at the last moment?
(a) an intolerable weakness
(b) like playing a joke on the devil
(c) a sense of power
(d) a terrible fear

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests that Stephen broke his glasses himself in order to get out of his schoolwork?

2. What are the Fenians?

3. What causes Stephen to recall how saints were tried again and again by sin?

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

5. What troubles Stephen that is so little cared about in general society?

(see the answer key)

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