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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Stephen now view his life?
(a) as a drudge worker in a heartless world
(b) as an escape from the old path and embarking on a new one
(c) as a hopeless drifter without proper education
(d) as a complete waste from which he learned nothing

2. What does Stephen feel by allowing sin to creep near to him before resisting it at the last moment?
(a) like playing a joke on the devil
(b) an intolerable weakness
(c) a terrible fear
(d) a sense of power

3. What does Stephen seem to hear now that he has changed the course of his life?
(a) symphonies of opportunity
(b) raindrops falling on his head
(c) noisey clanging of discord
(d) strains of elfin music filled with nature

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

5. What suddenly awakens in Stephen as he revels in nature along the breakwater?
(a) a new found creativity
(b) a better understanding of his family
(c) a longing for security
(d) a desire to return to the church

6. Who does not want Stephen to go to the university?
(a) Stephen
(b) his mother
(c) his brothers and sisters
(d) the Jesuits

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

8. What does the rector say the retreat signifies?
(a) a dedication to better study
(b) a withdrawal from the worldly cares
(c) a time off for good behavior
(d) a chance to enter the seminary

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

10. After dinner, why does Stephen march out of the house?
(a) to find Emma and beg her forgiveness
(b) to return to school and see Father Arnall
(c) to go by the brothels to see if he can overcome his lusts
(d) to find a chapel in which to confess

11. 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 his family always had such bad luck
(d) why he refused the priesthood

12. 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 confident they appear against his insecurities
(c) how they look characterless and pitiable in their nakedness
(d) how much stronger their bodies appear than his does

13. 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) oblivion
(c) excommunication
(d) purgatory

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

15. How does Stephen classify one who plays the role of a believer though he does not believe?
(a) as an agnostic
(b) as a hypocrite
(c) as an atheist
(d) as a Jesuit

Short Answer Questions

1. Since the only sins Stephen has to confess these days are minor, what does his confessor want him to name?

2. What is the symbolism used to show Stephen's returning to nature?

3. What begins to needle him and cause minor disruptions to his devotions?

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

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

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