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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

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 treatment Jesus endured at the hands of man
(b) the eternal suffering in hell
(c) the heads of people who willfully sin
(d) the prison for those who commit murder

2. What does Stephen find pleasing when he tires of Aristotle and Aquinas?
(a) the songs of the Elizabethans
(b) the ideas he has for his own original work
(c) the crunch of gravel beneath his feet
(d) the newspaper headlines

3. While onstage delivering his lines, who does Stephen see in the audience?
(a) his father with a strange woman
(b) Father Arnall
(c) the girl from the tram
(d) Uncle Charles and Dante

4. What response does Stephen give when Davin asks if he is Irish at all?
(a) Stephen sneers at davin.
(b) Stephen says he'll show him his family tree.
(c) Stephen refuses to answer.
(d) Stephen speaks Gaelic.

5. After what does Stephen model his poem titles in his notebook?
(a) the Canterbury Tales
(b) newspaper headlines
(c) the collected poems of Lord Byron
(d) odes by Keats

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary method used in the novel?

2. What does Stephen pretend not to notice when his mother says goodbye to him at school?

3. What will be the subjects of the retreat?

4. Who gets into an argument during Christmas dinner?

5. What is Stephen's most troubling problem as he sees it?

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