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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the preacher say is available to the living to spare them from this everlasting torment?
(a) repentance
(b) unqualified absolution
(c) vows
(d) candles and incense

2. Whose innocence does Stephen remember trampling on?
(a) a girl named Emma
(b) Mercedes
(c) a young prostitute
(d) the girl on the tram

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

4. What does the rector say the retreat signifies?
(a) a dedication to better study
(b) a time off for good behavior
(c) a chance to enter the seminary
(d) a withdrawal from the worldly cares

5. 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 insincere and empty
(d) as being disloyal toward him

Short Answer Questions

1. What distracting sight does Stephen come upon while he wades in the water?

2. On his guilt trips, what does Stephen believe?

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

4. Leaving the director's office, what does Stephen think about the life offered him?

5. After dinner, why does Stephen march out of the house?

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