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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. Where do Stephen and his father go at night by rail?
(a) to Cork
(b) to Gallway
(c) to Clongowes
(d) to Belfast

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

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

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

5. Who bumps Stephen into a square ditch of slimy, cold water?
(a) the language teacher
(b) the prefect
(c) a boy named Fleming
(d) a boy named Wells

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Stephen's favorite reading material?

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

4. What does Mr. Casey say he did to a woman who was speaking ill of Parnell?

5. Why does Uncle Charles no longer walk to the shops?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Father Arnall explain the purpose of the retreat?

2. How does Stephen try to help his family?

3. Why does Stephen take a train trip with his father?

4. Discuss briefly Stephen's longing for a loving embrace.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was in the verses Stephen wrote about the girl on the tram?

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