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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How old is Stephen when he goes to confess his terrible sin?
(a) about 19
(b) already 21
(c) just 14
(d) only 16

5. What does Stephen resolve to do?
(a) find Emma and marry her
(b) make up for his sinful past with every hour of his life
(c) go and preach to the prostitutes in the brothel
(d) become a priest

6. 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 a different religious facet or figure
(d) to physical exercise

7. What does the preacher say is available to the living to spare them from this everlasting torment?
(a) unqualified absolution
(b) candles and incense
(c) repentance
(d) vows

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about his life in the past does Stephen now wonder about?

2. What does the rector announce that will take place on Friday?

3. Who from the Bible are contrasted by the preacher?

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

5. How does Stephen now view his life?

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