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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 results when Stephen is bullied again?
(a) His glasses break.
(b) He fights back.
(c) He gets a bloody nose.
(d) He runs away from Clongowes.

2. What was Stephen's early song?
(a) The Irish Lullaby
(b) Old Dan tucker
(c) O, the Wild Rose Blooms
(d) In the Gloaming

3. Why does Uncle Charles no longer walk to the shops?
(a) He has grown too senile.
(b) He drives a new carriage.
(c) He is ashamed of his clothes.
(d) He has a broken leg.

4. What scandalous suggestion is rumored about the five boys who ran away?
(a) They were caught peeping into ladies' bedrooms.
(b) They had smuggled a prostitute into the school
(c) They were showing their bottoms to ladies on the street.
(d) They were caught "smugging" in the square with two younger boys.

5. What do the boys at school tease Stephen about?
(a) writing letters to Eileen
(b) wearing short pants
(c) wetting his bed
(d) kissing his mother before bedtime

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stephen follow the adult conversation at Christmas?

2. What is the literary method used in the novel?

3. What is the first occasion for Stephen to return home from school?

4. What is the name of the school Stephen next enrolls in?

5. What do the older men Stephen walks with usually talk about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Show how Stephen begins to weaken in his devotion to God.

2. What is Stephen's general impression of priests?

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

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

5. Briefly describe the argument between Dante and Mr. Casey.

6. What is the reaction of the students after Stephen goes to see the rector?

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

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

9. Explain how the priest introduces the subject of hell.

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

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