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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job is given to Stephen?
(a) unpacking boxes
(b) carrying messages
(c) doing laundry
(d) delivering newspapers

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

3. What happens in Stephen's poem about the girl in the tram?
(a) He helps her off the tram.
(b) He sits her in his lap.
(c) He calls her Mercedes.
(d) He kisses her.

4. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?
(a) to enter the priesthood
(b) to work harder at his lessons
(c) to confess his sins daily
(d) to be a gentleman and a good Catholic

5. What is the literary method used in the novel?
(a) stream of consciousness
(b) metaphor and irony
(c) chronological account
(d) parody

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the older boys opted for the flogging?

3. What do Stephen and Aubrey Mills formulate?

4. What does Mr. Casey say he did to a woman who was speaking ill of Parnell?

5. Why does Uncle Charles no longer walk to the shops?

(see the answer key)

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