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

3. What emotion does Stephen have over the reversal of his family's fortunes?
(a) mortification
(b) incredulity
(c) indifference
(d) sadness

4. How does Stephen regulate the noise he hears in the refractory?
(a) closing and opening the flaps of his ears
(b) humming softly to himself
(c) shutting out sound by concentration on home
(d) putting beans in his ears

5. While onstage delivering his lines, who does Stephen see in the audience?
(a) Father Arnall
(b) Uncle Charles and Dante
(c) his father with a strange woman
(d) the girl from the tram

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mike Flynn?

2. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?

3. What does Stephen wonder about Father Arnall's getting upset?

4. What does Stephen do about new words he hears the adults use?

5. What goes through Stephen's mind about the beautiful girl at the party?

(see the answer key)

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