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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the trip that causes Stephen's father to sip from his flask?
(a) a visit to a clinic
(b) a job interview
(c) Stephen's grandmother's funeral
(d) the auction of his property

2. When the rector enters the classroom, what does the boy behind Stephen want him to do?
(a) to pretend to plug up his ears
(b) to lead a salute to the rector
(c) to ask the rector a difficult question
(d) to put an apple on the rector's desk

3. Although he purposefully enters the brothel, how does he feel later?
(a) disturbed that he cannot save the workers there
(b) justified that he acted only out of nature
(c) wounded and shamed by much of what he perceives there
(d) numbed as though he had not gone in

4. Where does Stephen keep himself during the football game?
(a) next to the prefect
(b) on the bench
(c) on the fringes of his line
(d) In the thick of the action

5. At the first of the retreat, what helps to awaken Stephen's soul slightly?
(a) the topics of death and judgment
(b) the topic of a caring God
(c) the topic of Pergatory
(d) the topics of love and forgiveness

Short Answer Questions

1. While onstage delivering his lines, who does Stephen see in the audience?

2. What is Stephen's condition as he leaves the retreat?

3. What does Stephen think when he sees his friends playing in the water?

4. In whose honor is the retreat being held?

5. What do the boys at school tease Stephen about?

(see the answer key)

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