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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is detailed by cramped conditions, the darkness, the stench, the fires, the enraged howls and suffering screams of the damned, and the mocking of devils?
(a) the heads of people who willfully sin
(b) the treatment Jesus endured at the hands of man
(c) the prison for those who commit murder
(d) the eternal suffering in hell

2. What interpretation does Stephen give to his dream and visions of beasts in the field?
(a) That anyone looking at him will know his sins.
(b) That he will find salvation in a field.
(c) That he will reincarnate as a beast.
(d) That it is the hell awaiting him: bestial and foul.

3. What does Stephen think when he sees his friends playing in the water?
(a) how much stronger their bodies appear than his does
(b) how confident they appear against his insecurities
(c) how they look characterless and pitiable in their nakedness
(d) how they seem happy and without a care in the world

4. After dinner, why does Stephen march out of the house?
(a) to find a chapel in which to confess
(b) to find Emma and beg her forgiveness
(c) to return to school and see Father Arnall
(d) to go by the brothels to see if he can overcome his lusts

5. What offer does the director make to Stephen when he calls him to his office?
(a) to become his assistant
(b) to join the Jesuits
(c) to skip a grade in school
(d) to become the student enforcer

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stephen see his acts of devotion to God?

2. What causes Stephen to recall how saints were tried again and again by sin?

3. What has Stephen been able to feel instead of love or hate?

4. Who does not want Stephen to go to the university?

5. Since the only sins Stephen has to confess these days are minor, what does his confessor want him to name?

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