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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 keep pasted inside his desk?
(a) answers to test questions
(b) a letter from his mother
(c) a countdown to the holidays
(d) a photo of Eileen

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

3. What comment does Father make that he is admonished not to say in front of Stephen?
(a) Stephen's father calls the British "the saviors of Ireland."
(b) Stephen's father calls all priests "instruments of the devil."
(c) Stephen's father calls the language of the Holy Ghost "bad language."
(d) Stephen's father calls religious education a "blight on the land."

4. Where do Stephen and his father go at night by rail?
(a) to Clongowes
(b) to Belfast
(c) to Gallway
(d) to Cork

5. Who gets into an argument during Christmas dinner?
(a) Mother and Father
(b) Dante and Uncle Charles
(c) Dante and Mr. Casey
(d) Stephen and Father

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what does Stephen continually search?

3. What do the older men Stephen walks with usually talk about?

4. What is the first occasion for Stephen to return home from school?

5. What does Stephen pretend not to notice when his mother says goodbye to him at school?

(see the answer key)

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