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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Stephen pretend not to notice when his mother says goodbye to him at school?
(a) that she was going to cry
(b) that she wore too much perfume
(c) that her hat was on backwards
(d) that she was in a hurry to leave

3. Why is Stephen exempted from his classes?
(a) because his glasses are broken
(b) because he broke his arm
(c) because he was perfect on his exams
(d) because he is still running a fever

4. What public transportation does Stephen take?
(a) new motor buses
(b) horse drawn trams
(c) market carts
(d) shank's mare

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

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

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

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

9. What results from Stephen's fall into the ditch?
(a) He talks his parents into taking him home.
(b) He plans a revenge.
(c) He needs help to get out of the ditch.
(d) He becomes seriously ill.

10. What do the older men Stephen walks with usually talk about?
(a) Irish legends and music
(b) gambling and drinking
(c) religion and business
(d) mostly of politics and family legends

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

12. What do Stephen and Aubrey Mills formulate?
(a) ways to meet girls
(b) a team to make money
(c) imaginary adventures
(d) a blood brother pact

13. What scandalous suggestion is rumored about the five boys who ran away?
(a) They had smuggled a prostitute into the school
(b) They were caught "smugging" in the square with two younger boys.
(c) They were showing their bottoms to ladies on the street.
(d) They were caught peeping into ladies' bedrooms.

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

15. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?
(a) to confess his sins daily
(b) to be a gentleman and a good Catholic
(c) to enter the priesthood
(d) to work harder at his lessons

Short Answer Questions

1. After Blackrock, where does the family move?

2. Who does Stephen fantasize about marrying when he grows up?

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

4. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?

5. How does Stephen follow the adult conversation at Christmas?

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