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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 the first occasion for Stephen to return home from school?
(a) his sister's wedding
(b) Christmas holidays
(c) his father's heart attack
(d) a relapse of his illness

2. What does Stephen do about new words he hears the adults use?
(a) makes a list but does not spell them correctly
(b) figures out their meanings
(c) tries to use them in his own conversation
(d) interrupts conversation to ask their meanings

3. What scandalous suggestion is rumored about the five boys who ran away?
(a) They were showing their bottoms to ladies on the street.
(b) They were caught "smugging" in the square with two younger boys.
(c) They were caught peeping into ladies' bedrooms.
(d) They had smuggled a prostitute into the school

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

5. What happens to Stephen's hands when Father Dolan does not believe his glasses broke by accident?
(a) They are given whacks with the pandybat.
(b) They are pressed against the wall.
(c) They are placed in hot water.
(d) They are tied behind his back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stephen's favorite reading material?

2. How does Stephen regulate the noise he hears in the refractory?

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

4. For what does Stephen continually search?

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

(see the answer key)

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