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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does Stephen have over the reversal of his family's fortunes?
(a) indifference
(b) mortification
(c) incredulity
(d) sadness

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

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

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

5. Who suggests that Stephen broke his glasses himself in order to get out of his schoolwork?
(a) Father Dolan
(b) Tusker Boyle
(c) Father Arnall
(d) the bully Wells

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

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

8. What is Stephen's most troubling problem as he sees it?
(a) the bad influences of his friends
(b) the lack of faith
(c) the wasting fires of lust
(d) the need to make money

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

10. What political figure becomes a topic of conversation and disagreement among the adults?
(a) Goldsmith
(b) Parnell
(c) Churchill
(d) Cromwell

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

12. What happens in Stephen's poem about the girl in the tram?
(a) He helps her off the tram.
(b) He calls her Mercedes.
(c) He sits her in his lap.
(d) He kisses her.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the trip that causes Stephen's father to sip from his flask?

2. What results from Stephen's fall into the ditch?

3. What does Heron claim Lord Byron to be?

4. What does Stephen complain about to the rector?

5. What habit does Stephen hang onto?

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