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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the punishment, what are Flemming and Stephen told to do?
(a) return to their seats
(b) sit on the floor
(c) kneel
(d) stand in the corner

2. Who does Stephen suspect is also in the audience the night of the play?
(a) Mercedes
(b) Margaret
(c) the girl from the tram
(d) Josephine

3. What results from Stephen's fall into the ditch?
(a) He talks his parents into taking him home.
(b) He becomes seriously ill.
(c) He plans a revenge.
(d) He needs help to get out of the ditch.

4. Who does Stephen know for sure is in the audience for a play he is in at school?
(a) Aubrey
(b) his father
(c) Dante
(d) Uncle Charles

5. What choice is given two of the older boys after the group of runaways is returned to Clongowes?
(a) a choice between flogging and expulsion
(b) a choice between flogging or public humiliation
(c) a choice between flogging or the stocks
(d) a choice between flogging or the gauntlet

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mike Flynn?

2. What scandalous suggestion is rumored about the five boys who ran away?

3. What political figure becomes a topic of conversation and disagreement among the adults?

4. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?

5. What comment does Father make that he is admonished not to say in front of Stephen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the inconsistency of Stephens' devotion to his mother and his plans for his own future.

2. What are the subject of the retreat and what do they cause Stephen to think about?

3. How does Stephen try to help his family?

4. Tell about the punishment Father Dolan gives Fleming in the classroom.

5. How is the cynicism of Stephen revealed in his encounter with a statue?

6. How does Stephen encounter the dean of studies?

7. What punishments are to be meted out to the boys who ran away?

8. Identify the disconnect between Stephen and his father.

9. Describe the sixteen-year-old Stephen's confession.

10. Detail Stephen's experience at acting in a play at school.

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