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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Stephen angry with himself?
(a) his lack of ambition
(b) his youth and foolish impulses
(c) his lack of proper education
(d) his inability to express himself

2. What do the sermons do for Stephen?
(a) They pierce Stephen's clouded mind and sin-numbed soul.
(b) They put him to sleep.
(c) They make him reject the teaching of the Church.
(d) They give him a good laugh.

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

4. What happens to Stephen's voice as he gets to his major sin?
(a) It is choked with emotion.
(b) It becomes stronger.
(c) It fails him completely.
(d) It is low and murmuring.

5. How does Stephen see himself because of his frequent visits to the brothel?
(a) as a man and no longer a boy
(b) as a liberated Catholic
(c) sunk into a swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth
(d) as an addict who cannot help himself

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in Stephen's poem about the girl in the tram?

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

3. Where does Stephen imagine he will live when he gets married?

4. What habit does Stephen hang onto?

5. After dinner, why does Stephen march out of the house?

(see the answer key)

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