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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What results when Stephen is bullied again?
(a) His glasses break.
(b) He gets a bloody nose.
(c) He fights back.
(d) He runs away from Clongowes.

4. Who is Mike Flynn?
(a) The man who who supervises Stephen's runs around the track.
(b) The man who buys Stephen's father's business.
(c) The man Stephen goes to work for.
(d) The man Stephen's father works for.

5. What does Stephen do about new words he hears the adults use?
(a) tries to use them in his own conversation
(b) makes a list but does not spell them correctly
(c) interrupts conversation to ask their meanings
(d) figures out their meanings

Short Answer Questions

1. What public transportation does Stephen take?

2. What is demanded by boys Stephen meets on the road?

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

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

5. At school, what is the unusual word Stephen sees carved into a desk?

(see the answer key)

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