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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is detailed by cramped conditions, the darkness, the stench, the fires, the enraged howls and suffering screams of the damned, and the mocking of devils?
(a) the treatment Jesus endured at the hands of man
(b) the eternal suffering in hell
(c) the heads of people who willfully sin
(d) the prison for those who commit murder

2. What is happening with Stephen during further hard times for the family?
(a) He is turning to a life of crime.
(b) He is losing his faith again.
(c) He is leaning toward joining the Jesuits.
(d) He is growing stronger in his faith.

3. What strikes fear into the sinner, but is a blessed moment for the believer?
(a) death
(b) confession
(c) the Eucharist
(d) the divil

4. What interpretation does Stephen give to his dream and visions of beasts in the field?
(a) That it is the hell awaiting him: bestial and foul.
(b) That anyone looking at him will know his sins.
(c) That he will find salvation in a field.
(d) That he will reincarnate as a beast.

5. How does Stephen come to view all of creation?
(a) as a reminder of the lust in the world
(b) as the evolution of the species
(c) as an expression of God's love and power
(d) as an accident of nature

6. What keeps him from confessing his unworthiness and walking out of the chapel?
(a) the fear of God
(b) the priest is watching him
(c) the Virgin Mary
(d) the peacefulness of the chapel

7. What do the sermons do for Stephen?
(a) They put him to sleep.
(b) They pierce Stephen's clouded mind and sin-numbed soul.
(c) They make him reject the teaching of the Church.
(d) They give him a good laugh.

8. Leaving the director's office, what does Stephen think about the life offered him?
(a) He is filled with pride that the director thinks he is so good.
(b) He does not see the priest as being more devoted than he is.
(c) He questions his motives for wanting to be a priest.
(d) He is filled with fear that his family will reject him.

9. What does the rector announce that will take place on Friday?
(a) confession will be heard
(b) all classes will be shortened
(c) a day of prayer and meditation will be observed
(d) a banquet will be served

10. Why does Stephen exert enormous energy in filling his days with penitent devotion, zealous prayers, and rosary recitations?
(a) to please his mother
(b) to prepare himself for the seminary
(c) in elaborate attempts to mortify his senses
(d) to memorize Catholic ritual

11. What does Stephen suddenly realize about his family relationships?
(a) that they are silently severing
(b) that they have stiffled the family
(c) that they are becoming stronger
(d) that they have never been strong

12. How does the preacher define sin?
(a) a giving in to our naturally base natures
(b) a rebellion of the intellect, incompatible with our true nature
(c) a slap in the face of God
(d) a wallowing in sinful mire

13. When the rector enters the classroom, what does the boy behind Stephen want him to do?
(a) to lead a salute to the rector
(b) to pretend to plug up his ears
(c) to put an apple on the rector's desk
(d) to ask the rector a difficult question

14. How does Stephen begin seeing himself?
(a) as a rag picker without hope
(b) as a political leader of men
(c) as an artist forging a new life
(d) as a stern disciplinarian of boys

15. How does Stephen classify one who plays the role of a believer though he does not believe?
(a) as a Jesuit
(b) as a hypocrite
(c) as an agnostic
(d) as an atheist

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the preacher say awaits those who do not make use of the atonement of Christ to right their relationship with God?

2. How does the priest react to Stephen's confession?

3. At the first of the retreat, what helps to awaken Stephen's soul slightly?

4. Where does Stephen's father want to send him?

5. What offer does the director make to Stephen when he calls him to his office?

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