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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where do Stephen and his father go at night by rail?
(a) to Cork
(b) to Gallway
(c) to Belfast
(d) to Clongowes

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

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

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

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

8. What is the literary method used in the novel?
(a) parody
(b) stream of consciousness
(c) chronological account
(d) metaphor and irony

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

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

11. At school, what is the unusual word Stephen sees carved into a desk?
(a) fornication
(b) foetus
(c) flatulance
(d) feces

12. What do Stephen and Aubrey do in the meadow?
(a) ride a mare in the field
(b) look for buried treasure
(c) play football
(d) pretend to be pirates

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After the punishment, what do the boys urge Stephen to do?

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

4. Who gets into an argument during Christmas dinner?

5. Why does Uncle Charles no longer walk to the shops?

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