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

2. Who gets upset when several of the boys cannot answer a question correctly in Latin class?
(a) Father Parnell
(b) Father O'Casey
(c) Father Arnall
(d) Father Dolan

3. Who does Stephen suspect is also in the audience the night of the play?
(a) Margaret
(b) Josephine
(c) Mercedes
(d) the girl from the tram

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Stephen have over the reversal of his family's fortunes?

2. What was Stephen's early song?

3. Who bumps Stephen into a square ditch of slimy, cold water?

4. What is Stephen's most troubling problem as he sees it?

5. What is a major theme of the book?

(see the answer key)

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