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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Stephen coming to believe about gaining wisdom?
(a) It must come from his own experience.
(b) It must involve his family.
(c) It must be learned through study.
(d) It must happen through a miracle.

5. What is the symbolism used to show Stephen's returning to nature?
(a) whistling a response to the song birds
(b) picking up rocks for his collection
(c) joining the boys to swim in the water
(d) removing his stockings and wading in the breakwater

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

7. 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 questions his motives for wanting to be a priest.
(d) He is filled with pride that the director thinks he is so good.

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

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

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

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

12. What worries Stephen about his devotions?
(a) that he is forgetting some improtant devltions
(b) that there is not enough time in the day to do them all
(c) that he is not doing them the right way
(d) that no degree of devotion shall ever be enough

13. To what does Stephen devote each different day of the week?
(a) to studying a different section of the catechism
(b) to recruiting new students to join him
(c) to physical exercise
(d) to a different religious facet or figure

14. At the first of the retreat, what helps to awaken Stephen's soul slightly?
(a) the topic of Pergatory
(b) the topics of love and forgiveness
(c) the topics of death and judgment
(d) the topic of a caring God

15. What does Stephen think about when he hears his name called?
(a) Jesus calling his disciples to follow him
(b) startled that he almost forgot his real name
(c) what a strange name he has
(d) the Greek myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus as prophecy

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Stephen exert enormous energy in filling his days with penitent devotion, zealous prayers, and rosary recitations?

2. When does the preacher say the soul of the sinner is judged, and the time for repentance is passed?

3. How does Stephen now view the guardians of his boyhood?

4. What distracting sight does Stephen come upon while he wades in the water?

5. What do the sermons do for Stephen?

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