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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Casey say he did to a woman who was speaking ill of Parnell?
(a) slapped her with his gloves
(b) showed her his backside
(c) spit tobacco juice in her eye
(d) stepped on her toes

2. What is the first occasion for Stephen to return home from school?
(a) his father's heart attack
(b) his sister's wedding
(c) Christmas holidays
(d) a relapse of his illness

3. What comment does Father make that he is admonished not to say in front of Stephen?
(a) Stephen's father calls religious education a "blight on the land."
(b) Stephen's father calls the language of the Holy Ghost "bad language."
(c) Stephen's father calls the British "the saviors of Ireland."
(d) Stephen's father calls all priests "instruments of the devil."

4. What is the rumor about the five boys who ran away from Clongowes?
(a) They went to sea.
(b) They spit in the holy water.
(c) They stole from the collection box.
(d) They drank communion wine.

5. How does Stephen regulate the noise he hears in the refractory?
(a) closing and opening the flaps of his ears
(b) humming softly to himself
(c) shutting out sound by concentration on home
(d) putting beans in his ears

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?

3. What happens to Stephen's hands when Father Dolan does not believe his glasses broke by accident?

4. What does Stephen pretend not to notice when his mother says goodbye to him at school?

5. What results from Stephen's meeting to complain about Father Dolan?

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