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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephen do after running in ecstasy along the beach?
(a) lies down and falls asleep
(b) goes home to write poetry
(c) runs home to tell his mother
(d) returns to look for the girl

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

3. What is it about his mother that really bothers Stephen when the subject of the university comes up?
(a) her indifference
(b) her objection to the expense
(c) her distrust of him
(d) her contempt for education

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

5. What about his life in the past does Stephen now wonder about?
(a) why he had been born
(b) why he always thinks too much
(c) why he refused the priesthood
(d) why his family always had such bad luck

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

7. How does Stephen see his acts of devotion to God?
(a) as notches in a heavenly belt
(b) as tally marks on a chalkboard
(c) as protection against prostitutes
(d) as pressing keys of a divine cash register

8. What sensation does Stephen get while thinking back to Clongowes?
(a) He feels all grown up.
(b) He feels ashamed of his father's financial difficulties.
(c) He feels like the retreat is like falling into a ditch.
(d) He feels his soul become childlike.

9. 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 is filled with fear that his family will reject him.
(c) He questions his motives for wanting to be a priest.
(d) He does not see the priest as being more devoted than he is.

10. What is Stephen's condition as he leaves the retreat?
(a) Stephen is happy that he has overcome his lusts.
(b) Stephen is so sick he fears he may have already died.
(c) Stephen is determined to leave the Church.
(d) Stephen is rebellious against all he had heard.

11. What does the rector announce to the class?
(a) extra credit for serving as altarboys
(b) an early dismissal for the next few days
(c) tests for a scholarship program
(d) a retreat over the next few days

12. What does the preacher say awaits those who do not make use of the atonement of Christ to right their relationship with God?
(a) hell
(b) excommunication
(c) oblivion
(d) purgatory

13. How does Stephen react to the announcement of the rector?
(a) His attitude is one of boredom.
(b) He plans to be sick next Friday.
(c) His heart withers with fear.
(d) He is glad he will have a chance to reform.

14. Alone in his room, what does Stephen see when he closes his eyes?
(a) faces of saints
(b) the girl Emma begging bread
(c) his sins replayed before him
(d) the tears of the virgin Mary

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On his guilt trips, what does Stephen believe?

2. What will be the subjects of the retreat?

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

4. What does Stephen think about when he hears his name called?

5. How does the director describe the life of a priest?

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