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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Stephen now view his life?
(a) as a drudge worker in a heartless world
(b) as an escape from the old path and embarking on a new one
(c) as a complete waste from which he learned nothing
(d) as a hopeless drifter without proper education

2. Although he purposefully enters the brothel, how does he feel later?
(a) numbed as though he had not gone in
(b) justified that he acted only out of nature
(c) wounded and shamed by much of what he perceives there
(d) disturbed that he cannot save the workers there

3. How does Stephen feel about the Virgin?
(a) As a mother, she overlooks the sins of her children.
(b) She can order her Son to do her will.
(c) She has chosen him to be her white knight.
(d) Mary does not humiliate the sinner who approaches her.

4. After the confession, how does Stephen feel?
(a) euphoric and filled with grace
(b) happy to tell everyone his joy
(c) afraid he will die before receiving holy communion
(d) glad that it is over but feeling the same

5. What do the sermons do for Stephen?
(a) They give him a good laugh.
(b) They make him reject the teaching of the Church.
(c) They pierce Stephen's clouded mind and sin-numbed soul.
(d) They put him to sleep.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Stephen coming to believe about gaining wisdom?

3. How does Stephen begin to see his mother's faith?

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

5. What is Stephen's condition as he leaves the retreat?

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