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

2. What is a major theme of the book?
(a) Catholicism versus Protestantism
(b) Catholic education versus public education
(c) Irish nationalism and Irish identity
(d) Coming of age

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

4. Who gets into an argument during Christmas dinner?
(a) Stephen and Father
(b) Mother and Father
(c) Dante and Uncle Charles
(d) Dante and Mr. Casey

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Stephen have over the reversal of his family's fortunes?

2. What is Stephen's favorite reading material?

3. What do the boys at school tease Stephen about?

4. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Stephen's impression of Clongowes Wood College?

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

3. What is the extent of Stephen's knowledge of Parnell?

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

5. What happens on Sundays in Blackrock?

6. Describe the conflict in Stephen as he leaves the director's office.

7. How does Stephen encounter the dean of studies?

8. Having freed himself from religion, how does Stephen see himself?

9. Contrast the definitions of what it means to be Irish between Davin and Stephen.

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

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