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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Stephen keep himself during the football game?
(a) In the thick of the action
(b) on the fringes of his line
(c) on the bench
(d) next to the prefect

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

4. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?
(a) as a hero
(b) as an enemy
(c) as a sneak
(d) as a tattle tale

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a major theme of the book?

2. After the punishment, what do the boys urge Stephen to do?

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

4. How does Stephen see the priests in this first chapter of the book?

5. What makes Stephen angry with himself?

(see the answer key)

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