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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are some things Stephen remembers while contemplating his sins?
(a) peeping on girls in their bath
(b) his sordid dreams and the foul letters he had written
(c) the filthy pictures he had drawn
(d) the ribald poetery he wrote

3. 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 eternal suffering in hell
(b) the treatment Jesus endured at the hands of man
(c) the prison for those who commit murder
(d) the heads of people who willfully sin

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

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

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

8. What will be the subjects of the retreat?
(a) mortifying the flesh
(b) sin and salvation
(c) death, judgment, hell, and heaven
(d) confession and renewal

9. How could Stephen's thoughts after leaving the director's office be described in one word?
(a) empty
(b) hostile
(c) vain
(d) astonished

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

11. What does Stephen think when he sees his friends playing in the water?
(a) how they seem happy and without a care in the world
(b) how they look characterless and pitiable in their nakedness
(c) how much stronger their bodies appear than his does
(d) how confident they appear against his insecurities

12. Who from the Bible are contrasted by the preacher?
(a) Pontius Pilate is contrasted with christ.
(b) Moses is contrasted with Christ.
(c) Adam and Eve are contrasted with Christ.
(d) Pharaoh is contrasted with Christ.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps him from confessing his unworthiness and walking out of the chapel?

2. What does Stephen discover when he returns home from the director's office?

3. What does the preacher say is available to the living to spare them from this everlasting torment?

4. What does the rector announce to the class?

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

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