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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. What do Stephen and Aubrey Mills formulate?
(a) a team to make money
(b) ways to meet girls
(c) imaginary adventures
(d) a blood brother pact

2. What does Mr. Casey say he did to a woman who was speaking ill of Parnell?
(a) showed her his backside
(b) slapped her with his gloves
(c) spit tobacco juice in her eye
(d) stepped on her toes

3. Where does Stephen imagine he will live when he gets married?
(a) in an apartment in London
(b) in a small, whitewashed house outside of Blackrock
(c) on a houseboat
(d) in a three storey house in Dublin

4. What gives Stephen a second clue that all is not well financially with the family?
(a) He does not get new clothes.
(b) He notices slight changes around the house.
(c) His father sells the automobile.
(d) His mother takes in laundry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stephen's favorite reading material?

2. What is a major theme of the book?

3. Which of the older boys opted for the flogging?

4. What does Heron claim Lord Byron to be?

5. What public transportation does Stephen take?

Short Essay Questions

1. Write down how Stephen hears hell described.

2. What is the evidence of stress on the family's having to move again?

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

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

5. Describe Stephen's first encounter with the girl on the tram.

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

7. Explain how the sermons during the retreat affect Stephen.

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

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

10. What are some of the specifics Stephen is troubled by from his past life?

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