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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. Which of the older boys opted for the flogging?
(a) a boy named Simon Moonan
(b) a boy named Corrigan
(c) a boy named Tusker Boyle
(d) a boy named Wells

2. Who suggests that Stephen broke his glasses himself in order to get out of his schoolwork?
(a) Tusker Boyle
(b) Father Arnall
(c) the bully Wells
(d) Father Dolan

3. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?
(a) as a sneak
(b) as a tattle tale
(c) as a hero
(d) as an enemy

4. What political figure becomes a topic of conversation and disagreement among the adults?
(a) Churchill
(b) Cromwell
(c) Goldsmith
(d) Parnell

5. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?
(a) His father has converted to Protestantism.
(b) From then on he will be home schooled.
(c) They plan to send him to England to study.
(d) It signifies a change in his father's finances.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stephen complain about to the rector?

2. What is the purpose of the trip that causes Stephen's father to sip from his flask?

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

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

5. What happens to Stephen's hands when Father Dolan does not believe his glasses broke by accident?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Stephen's new outlook on the love of God.

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

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

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

8. Explain something of the longing that Stephen feels even from an early age.

9. Identify the disconnect between Stephen and his father.

10. Tell how Stephen begins to look at his country in a different way.

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