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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At school, what is the unusual word Stephen sees carved into a desk?
(a) feces
(b) fornication
(c) flatulance
(d) foetus

3. Who does Stephen fantasize about marrying when he grows up?
(a) Dante
(b) His mother
(c) Eileen
(d) Margaret

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

5. After Blackrock, where does the family move?
(a) to a small house in Belfast
(b) back into their old home
(c) to an apartment in London
(d) into less comfortable accommodations in Dublin

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Stephen and his father go at night by rail?

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

3. Who is Mike Flynn?

4. What is Stephen's favorite reading material?

5. What limits the omniscience of the narrator of the story?

(see the answer key)

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