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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How could Stephen's thoughts after leaving the director's office be described in one word?
(a) empty
(b) hostile
(c) vain
(d) astonished

2. How does the priest react to Stephen's confession?
(a) refusing to give absolution
(b) with kind words and exhortation
(c) in shock and disgust
(d) suspicious that the boy is exaggerating

3. What results when Stephen is bullied again?
(a) He runs away from Clongowes.
(b) His glasses break.
(c) He fights back.
(d) He gets a bloody nose.

4. What political figure becomes a topic of conversation and disagreement among the adults?
(a) Churchill
(b) Parnell
(c) Goldsmith
(d) Cromwell

5. What is detailed by cramped conditions, the darkness, the stench, the fires, the enraged howls and suffering screams of the damned, and the mocking of devils?
(a) the eternal suffering in hell
(b) the prison for those who commit murder
(c) the heads of people who willfully sin
(d) the treatment Jesus endured at the hands of man

Short Answer Questions

1. What public transportation does Stephen take?

2. When the rector enters the classroom, what does the boy behind Stephen want him to do?

3. What is the symbolism used to show Stephen's returning to nature?

4. When does the preacher say the soul of the sinner is judged, and the time for repentance is passed?

5. How does Stephen now view his life?

(see the answer key)

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