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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what does Stephen continually search?
(a) for his fortune
(b) for his friend Aubrey
(c) for a job
(d) for his Mercedes

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

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

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

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

7. 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 wasting fires of lust
(d) the lack of faith

8. After the punishment, what are Flemming and Stephen told to do?
(a) kneel
(b) return to their seats
(c) stand in the corner
(d) sit on the floor

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

10. What is the name of the character Stephen is fixated on?
(a) Minnie Cooper
(b) Bentley Ann
(c) Porsche
(d) Mercedes

11. How does Stephen see the priests in this first chapter of the book?
(a) as irreligious
(b) as avenging angels of God
(c) as flawless beings
(d) as merciless oppressors

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

13. What is a major theme of the book?
(a) Catholic education versus public education
(b) Irish nationalism and Irish identity
(c) Coming of age
(d) Catholicism versus Protestantism

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

15. 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 all priests "instruments of the devil."
(c) Stephen's father calls the language of the Holy Ghost "bad language."
(d) Stephen's father calls the British "the saviors of Ireland."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Stephen keep pasted inside his desk?

4. Where does Stephen keep himself during the football game?

5. By summer, where has the family moved?

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