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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?
(a) His father has converted to Protestantism.
(b) It signifies a change in his father's finances.
(c) They plan to send him to England to study.
(d) From then on he will be home schooled.

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

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

4. What habit does Stephen hang onto?
(a) his habit of eavesdropping
(b) his habit of obedience
(c) his habit of cutting classes
(d) his habit of writing poems

5. What happens when summer vacation is over for Stephen?
(a) Stephen does not return to Clongowes.
(b) Stephen finds a steady job.
(c) Stephen works out on the track with Mike.
(d) Stephen's family moves again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in Stephen's poem about the girl in the tram?

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

3. What choice is given two of the older boys after the group of runaways is returned to Clongowes?

4. What happens to Stephen's hands when Father Dolan does not believe his glasses broke by accident?

5. What do Stephen and Aubrey Mills formulate?

(see the answer key)

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