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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Blackrock, where does the family move?
(a) into less comfortable accommodations in Dublin
(b) to an apartment in London
(c) back into their old home
(d) to a small house in Belfast

2. What results from Stephen's meeting to complain about Father Dolan?
(a) The rector dismisses Father Dolan.
(b) The rector punishes Stephen again.
(c) The rector excuses Father Dolan.
(d) The rector agrees to speak to Father Dolan.

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

4. What comment does Father make that he is admonished not to say in front of Stephen?
(a) Stephen's father calls all priests "instruments of the devil."
(b) Stephen's father calls religious education a "blight on the land."
(c) Stephen's father calls the language of the Holy Ghost "bad language."
(d) Stephen's father calls the British "the saviors of Ireland."

5. What does Stephen like in Doctor Cornwell's Spelling Book?
(a) margin notes he wrote
(b) funny illustrations
(c) large print
(d) nice sentences

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

7. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?
(a) It signifies a change in his father's finances.
(b) They plan to send him to England to study.
(c) From then on he will be home schooled.
(d) His father has converted to Protestantism.

8. After the punishment, what do the boys urge Stephen to do?
(a) visit the rector
(b) call the police
(c) run away from the school
(d) put tacks in Father Dolan's chair

9. What happens to Stephen's hands when Father Dolan does not believe his glasses broke by accident?
(a) They are placed in hot water.
(b) They are pressed against the wall.
(c) They are tied behind his back.
(d) They are given whacks with the pandybat.

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

11. What is demanded by boys Stephen meets on the road?
(a) an introduction to Mercedes
(b) money for his lunch
(c) identification of his favorite poet
(d) to play hookey that afternoon

12. Where does Stephen keep himself during the football game?
(a) on the fringes of his line
(b) on the bench
(c) In the thick of the action
(d) next to the prefect

13. During table conversation, what is a local Catholic priest accused of?
(a) getting drunk on communion wine
(b) mixing politics into his sermons
(c) molesting children
(d) teaching apostacy

14. Who bumps Stephen into a square ditch of slimy, cold water?
(a) the language teacher
(b) the prefect
(c) a boy named Wells
(d) a boy named Fleming

15. What gives Stephen a second clue that all is not well financially with the family?
(a) His mother takes in laundry.
(b) His father sells the automobile.
(c) He does not get new clothes.
(d) He notices slight changes around the house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Stephen exempted from his classes?

3. What makes Stephen angry with himself?

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

5. For what does Stephen continually search?

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