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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What limits the omniscience of the narrator of the story?
(a) He speaks with a devoutly religious voice.
(b) He speaks mainly from Stephen's mother's point of view.
(c) He speaks only as an Irish nationalist.
(d) He speaks largely from Stephen's perspective.

2. How does Stephen follow the adult conversation at Christmas?
(a) He does not understand fully what they talk about.
(b) He begins to formulate new political ideas.
(c) He wonders why adults like to talk so much.
(d) He takes in everything and understands.

3. After the punishment, what are Flemming and Stephen told to do?
(a) stand in the corner
(b) sit on the floor
(c) return to their seats
(d) kneel

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

5. What scandalous suggestion is rumored about the five boys who ran away?
(a) They were caught peeping into ladies' bedrooms.
(b) They had smuggled a prostitute into the school
(c) They were caught "smugging" in the square with two younger boys.
(d) They were showing their bottoms to ladies on the street.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who bumps Stephen into a square ditch of slimy, cold water?

2. What comment does Father make that he is admonished not to say in front of Stephen?

3. How does Stephen regulate the noise he hears in the refractory?

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

5. What does Stephen complain about to the rector?

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