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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who bumps Stephen into a square ditch of slimy, cold water?
(a) the language teacher
(b) the prefect
(c) a boy named Wells
(d) a boy named Fleming

2. What does Stephen complain about to the rector?
(a) broken fingers
(b) unjust punishment
(c) Father Dolan interfering in Father Arnall's class
(d) broken blood vessels in his hands

3. What does Stephen pretend not to notice when his mother says goodbye to him at school?
(a) that she wore too much perfume
(b) that she was in a hurry to leave
(c) that she was going to cry
(d) that her hat was on backwards

4. Who gets upset when several of the boys cannot answer a question correctly in Latin class?
(a) Father Parnell
(b) Father O'Casey
(c) Father Arnall
(d) Father Dolan

5. 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 had smuggled a prostitute into the school
(d) They were showing their bottoms to ladies on the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What results from Stephen's fall into the ditch?

2. What is the rumor about the five boys who ran away from Clongowes?

3. What is the literary method used in the novel?

4. What political figure becomes a topic of conversation and disagreement among the adults?

5. What was Stephen's early song?

(see the answer key)

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