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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephen feel by allowing sin to creep near to him before resisting it at the last moment?
(a) like playing a joke on the devil
(b) a sense of power
(c) an intolerable weakness
(d) a terrible fear

2. How does Stephen begin to see his mother's faith?
(a) as fading away with the family trials
(b) as being the cause of his father's failures
(c) as being disloyal toward him
(d) as being insincere and empty

3. How does Stephen now view the guardians of his boyhood?
(a) as means of controlling him
(b) as the factor that has made him strong
(c) as ways of keeping him ignorant
(d) as necessary influences

4. What has Stephen been able to feel instead of love or hate?
(a) only anxiety and fear
(b) only joy and pain
(c) only brief anger and lust
(d) only hunger and thirst

5. Why does Stephen exert enormous energy in filling his days with penitent devotion, zealous prayers, and rosary recitations?
(a) in elaborate attempts to mortify his senses
(b) to please his mother
(c) to prepare himself for the seminary
(d) to memorize Catholic ritual

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the preacher define sin?

2. Whose innocence does Stephen remember trampling on?

3. What happens to Stephen's voice as he gets to his major sin?

4. What sensation does Stephen get while thinking back to Clongowes?

5. Alone in his room, what does Stephen see when he closes his eyes?

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