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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Stephen's father want to send him?
(a) to New York
(b) the university
(c) to Australia
(d) to a trade school

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

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

4. Leaving the director's office, what does Stephen think about the life offered him?
(a) He does not see the priest as being more devoted than he is.
(b) He questions his motives for wanting to be a priest.
(c) He is filled with fear that his family will reject him.
(d) He is filled with pride that the director thinks he is so good.

5. What causes Stephen to recall how saints were tried again and again by sin?
(a) his interest in the lives of saints
(b) his ability to avoid temptation
(c) his lingering guilt for his past
(d) his many daily temptations

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Stephen know for sure is in the audience for a play he is in at school?

2. What limits the omniscience of the narrator of the story?

3. What does the rector say the retreat signifies?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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