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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. How does Stephen see the priests in this first chapter of the book?
(a) as merciless oppressors
(b) as flawless beings
(c) as avenging angels of God
(d) as irreligious

2. What do the older men Stephen walks with usually talk about?
(a) Irish legends and music
(b) gambling and drinking
(c) religion and business
(d) mostly of politics and family legends

3. After what does Stephen model his poem titles in his notebook?
(a) the collected poems of Lord Byron
(b) odes by Keats
(c) newspaper headlines
(d) the Canterbury Tales

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

5. At school, what is the unusual word Stephen sees carved into a desk?
(a) flatulance
(b) feces
(c) foetus
(d) fornication

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?

2. What does Heron claim Lord Byron to be?

3. What does Stephen do immediately after the play?

4. How does Stephen regulate the noise he hears in the refractory?

5. What does Stephen keep pasted inside his desk?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the rector come into Stephen's classroom?

3. At the beginning of the novel, what does Stephen remember?

4. Classify Stephen as a university student.

5. Explain Stephen's feelings about his sinful nature.

6. Detail the paradox of Stephen's past and present in regard to the church.

7. Draw a picture of how Stephen keeps returning to the brothel quarter.

8. What describes Stephen's deepening connection with literature?

9. Mention Stephen's attempt to join a group of boys after being publicly chided by a teacher.

10. How does Stephen connect his family name with the new course of his life?

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