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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Although he purposefully enters the brothel, how does he feel later?
(a) disturbed that he cannot save the workers there
(b) numbed as though he had not gone in
(c) wounded and shamed by much of what he perceives there
(d) justified that he acted only out of nature

3. How does Stephen now view the guardians of his boyhood?
(a) as necessary influences
(b) as means of controlling him
(c) as the factor that has made him strong
(d) as ways of keeping him ignorant

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

5. 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 growing stronger in his faith.
(d) He is losing his faith again.

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

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

8. What distracting sight does Stephen come upon while he wades in the water?
(a) a long legged crane perched on one leg
(b) a porpoise leaping in the salty water
(c) a beautiful girl standing in the water gazing out to sea
(d) a passing ship headed for new adventures

9. What does Stephen discover when he returns home from the director's office?
(a) They are all excited about his becoming a priest.
(b) His father is in the hospital.
(c) The family is being forced to move again.
(d) Uncle Charles has died.

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

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

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

13. What begins to needle him and cause minor disruptions to his devotions?
(a) images of Emma in his head
(b) remembering the girl on the tram
(c) imperfections in himself
(d) the teasing of other boys

14. On his guilt trips, what does Stephen believe?
(a) that false homage to God cannot atone for sin as grievous as his.
(b) that maybe there is no God and no need for religion
(c) that God created him the way he is and there is nothing he can do about it
(d) that he can confess to the Virgin and never do it again

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What causes Stephen to recall how saints were tried again and again by sin?

3. What happens to Stephen's voice as he gets to his major sin?

4. What suddenly awakens in Stephen as he revels in nature along the breakwater?

5. What sensation does Stephen get while thinking back to Clongowes?

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