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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the boys at school tease Stephen about?
2. Where do Stephen and his father go at night by rail?
3. While onstage delivering his lines, who does Stephen see in the audience?
4. For what does Stephen continually search?
5. What happens to Stephen's hands when Father Dolan does not believe his glasses broke by accident?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the subject of the retreat and what do they cause Stephen to think about?
2. Why does the rector come into Stephen's classroom?
3. Explain how the sermons during the retreat affect Stephen.
4. Detail the paradox of Stephen's past and present in regard to the church.
5. How does Stephen encounter the dean of studies?
6. Explain the effort Stephen puts in to remain pious.
7. Explain something of the longing that Stephen feels even from an early age.
8. Identify the symbolic passage of Stephen into his self-directed life course.
9. Write down how Stephen hears hell described.
10. Describe the conflict in Stephen as he leaves the director's office.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay on decision making. The symbolism of Stephen's pacing back and forth between the chapel and Byron's pub is his crossroads decision to return to the church and become a priest or give in to his desire to become an artist. In your essay discuss both the rational and emotional elements involved in decision making process.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about dysfunctional families like Stephen's. In what ways were they dysfunctional? In your essay talk about finances, religious differences, and living conditions which contribute to the dysfunction of a family.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay entitled, Imagery in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In your essay, select one or two passages with some of Joyce's literary imagery and explain why these in particular appealed to you. Discuss how imagery in literature paints a mental picture for the reader.
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