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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Stephen begin to see his mother's faith?
(a) as being disloyal toward him
(b) as fading away with the family trials
(c) as being insincere and empty
(d) as being the cause of his father's failures

3. What will be the subjects of the retreat?
(a) sin and salvation
(b) mortifying the flesh
(c) death, judgment, hell, and heaven
(d) confession and renewal

4. What habit does Stephen hang onto?
(a) his habit of obedience
(b) his habit of cutting classes
(c) his habit of eavesdropping
(d) his habit of writing poems

5. In whose honor is the retreat being held?
(a) The Virgin Mary
(b) Saint Francis of Assissi
(c) Saint Francis Xavier, patron of the college
(d) Saint Jude, patron of lost causes

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Stephen and his father go at night by rail?

2. What are the Fenians?

3. In answering the dean, who does Stephen quote in Latin?

4. What strikes fear into the sinner, but is a blessed moment for the believer?

5. Who does Stephen suspect is also in the audience the night of the play?

(see the answer key)

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