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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?
(a) as a sneak
(b) as a hero
(c) as an enemy
(d) as a tattle tale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What goes through Stephen's mind about the beautiful girl at the party?
(a) How she is too old for him.
(b) How he could easily catch hold of her and kiss her.
(c) How much she looks like Mercedes.
(d) How he would like to kick her.

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

13. Who does Stephen know for sure is in the audience for a play he is in at school?
(a) Uncle Charles
(b) his father
(c) Dante
(d) Aubrey

14. When does Stephen feel happy?
(a) only when he is alone
(b) only when he thinks of Mercedes
(c) only when he has a sweet to eat
(d) only when he sees the girl from the tram

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What choice is given two of the older boys after the group of runaways is returned to Clongowes?

2. For what does Stephen continually search?

3. How does Stephen see the priests in this first chapter of the book?

4. What is the rumor about the five boys who ran away from Clongowes?

5. At school, what is the unusual word Stephen sees carved into a desk?

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