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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What makes Stephen angry with himself?
(a) his lack of ambition
(b) his inability to express himself
(c) his youth and foolish impulses
(d) his lack of proper education

3. What is Stephen's most troubling problem as he sees it?
(a) the need to make money
(b) the lack of faith
(c) the wasting fires of lust
(d) the bad influences of his friends

4. Where does Stephen imagine he will live when he gets married?
(a) in a small, whitewashed house outside of Blackrock
(b) in a three storey house in Dublin
(c) on a houseboat
(d) in an apartment in London

5. What does Stephen like in Doctor Cornwell's Spelling Book?
(a) funny illustrations
(b) nice sentences
(c) margin notes he wrote
(d) large print

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Stephen have over the reversal of his family's fortunes?

2. During table conversation, what is a local Catholic priest accused of?

3. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?

4. What is a major theme of the book?

5. Who does Stephen know for sure is in the audience for a play he is in at school?

(see the answer key)

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