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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephen complain about to the rector?
(a) broken blood vessels in his hands
(b) Father Dolan interfering in Father Arnall's class
(c) broken fingers
(d) unjust punishment

2. How does Stephen see the priests in this first chapter of the book?
(a) as flawless beings
(b) as merciless oppressors
(c) as irreligious
(d) as avenging angels of God

3. What choice is given two of the older boys after the group of runaways is returned to Clongowes?
(a) a choice between flogging and expulsion
(b) a choice between flogging or public humiliation
(c) a choice between flogging or the stocks
(d) a choice between flogging or the gauntlet

4. What does Stephen keep pasted inside his desk?
(a) a letter from his mother
(b) answers to test questions
(c) a photo of Eileen
(d) a countdown to the holidays

5. While onstage delivering his lines, who does Stephen see in the audience?
(a) the girl from the tram
(b) Uncle Charles and Dante
(c) Father Arnall
(d) his father with a strange woman

6. Where does Stephen imagine he will live when he gets married?
(a) in a three storey house in Dublin
(b) on a houseboat
(c) in a small, whitewashed house outside of Blackrock
(d) in an apartment in London

7. What is the name of the character Stephen is fixated on?
(a) Bentley Ann
(b) Mercedes
(c) Minnie Cooper
(d) Porsche

8. What do the boys at school tease Stephen about?
(a) kissing his mother before bedtime
(b) wetting his bed
(c) wearing short pants
(d) writing letters to Eileen

9. What is Stephen's favorite reading material?
(a) The Pickwick Papers
(b) The Count of Monte Cristo
(c) comic books
(d) the newspaper

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

11. Who does Stephen fantasize about marrying when he grows up?
(a) Eileen
(b) His mother
(c) Margaret
(d) Dante

12. What is the name of the school Stephen next enrolls in?
(a) Belvedere
(b) Dublin Polytechnic
(c) Cleeves
(d) Byron Academy

13. What job is given to Stephen?
(a) carrying messages
(b) unpacking boxes
(c) delivering newspapers
(d) doing laundry

14. After what does Stephen model his poem titles in his notebook?
(a) the collected poems of Lord Byron
(b) odes by Keats
(c) newspaper headlines
(d) the Canterbury Tales

15. By summer, where has the family moved?
(a) Dublin
(b) Liverpool
(c) Blackrock
(d) Glaway

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the older men Stephen walks with usually talk about?

2. What gives Stephen a second clue that all is not well financially with the family?

3. Who bumps Stephen into a square ditch of slimy, cold water?

4. What does Stephen like in Doctor Cornwell's Spelling Book?

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

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