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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 Stephen coming to believe about gaining wisdom?
(a) It must involve his family.
(b) It must be learned through study.
(c) It must happen through a miracle.
(d) It must come from his own experience.

2. Who is Mike Flynn?
(a) The man who buys Stephen's father's business.
(b) The man Stephen goes to work for.
(c) The man who who supervises Stephen's runs around the track.
(d) The man Stephen's father works for.

3. How does Stephen find the dean of studies in the theater?
(a) reading a Latin text
(b) lecturing a mischievous student
(c) bending low to light a fire in the grate
(d) putting fresh paint on the walls

4. What political figure becomes a topic of conversation and disagreement among the adults?
(a) Churchill
(b) Goldsmith
(c) Cromwell
(d) Parnell

5. What is the purpose of the trip that causes Stephen's father to sip from his flask?
(a) Stephen's grandmother's funeral
(b) a visit to a clinic
(c) the auction of his property
(d) a job interview

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stephen classify one who plays the role of a believer though he does not believe?

2. How does Stephen see his acts of devotion to God?

3. What is happening with Stephen during further hard times for the family?

4. How does Stephen follow the adult conversation at Christmas?

5. Why does Stephen exert enormous energy in filling his days with penitent devotion, zealous prayers, and rosary recitations?

(see the answer key)

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