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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Since the only sins Stephen has to confess these days are minor, what does his confessor want him to name?
(a) his fantasies about sinning
(b) sins that he would never commit
(c) his old sins
(d) sins that still tempt him

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

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

6. Going through all these strict devotions, how does Stephen come to feel about himself?
(a) as a serious candidate for the priesthood
(b) as a person burdened with grave responsibility
(c) as newly born and as having a virtuous soul
(d) as an unworthy penitent

7. Where does Stephen's father want to send him?
(a) the university
(b) to New York
(c) to Australia
(d) to a trade school

8. What happens to Stephen's voice as he gets to his major sin?
(a) It becomes stronger.
(b) It is low and murmuring.
(c) It is choked with emotion.
(d) It fails him completely.

9. How does Stephen feel about the Virgin?
(a) Mary does not humiliate the sinner who approaches her.
(b) She can order her Son to do her will.
(c) She has chosen him to be her white knight.
(d) As a mother, she overlooks the sins of her children.

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

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

12. Whose innocence does Stephen remember trampling on?
(a) a young prostitute
(b) a girl named Emma
(c) Mercedes
(d) the girl on the tram

13. How does Stephen see himself because of his frequent visits to the brothel?
(a) as a man and no longer a boy
(b) as an addict who cannot help himself
(c) as a liberated Catholic
(d) sunk into a swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth

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

15. Where does Stephen's walking around in smaller and smaller circles eventually lead him?
(a) to his home
(b) to the brothel quarter
(c) the the church
(d) to the school

Short Answer Questions

1. As he goes outside, what serves to increase his piety?

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

3. What does Stephen feel by allowing sin to creep near to him before resisting it at the last moment?

4. What does Stephen seem to hear now that he has changed the course of his life?

5. When the rector enters the classroom, what does the boy behind Stephen want him to do?

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