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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the older boys opted for the flogging?
(a) a boy named Corrigan
(b) a boy named Simon Moonan
(c) a boy named Tusker Boyle
(d) a boy named Wells

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

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

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

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

8. 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 gauntlet
(b) a choice between flogging and expulsion
(c) a choice between flogging or public humiliation
(d) a choice between flogging or the stocks

9. What habit does Stephen hang onto?
(a) his habit of cutting classes
(b) his habit of writing poems
(c) his habit of obedience
(d) his habit of eavesdropping

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

11. Who is Mike Flynn?
(a) The man who buys Stephen's father's business.
(b) The man Stephen's father works for.
(c) The man Stephen goes to work for.
(d) The man who who supervises Stephen's runs around the track.

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

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

14. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Stephen imagine he will live when he gets married?

2. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?

3. Who suggests that Stephen broke his glasses himself in order to get out of his schoolwork?

4. After what does Stephen model his poem titles in his notebook?

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

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