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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first occasion for Stephen to return home from school?
(a) Christmas holidays
(b) a relapse of his illness
(c) his father's heart attack
(d) his sister's wedding

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

3. What is the rumor about the five boys who ran away from Clongowes?
(a) They stole from the collection box.
(b) They went to sea.
(c) They drank communion wine.
(d) They spit in the holy water.

4. What does Mr. Casey say he did to a woman who was speaking ill of Parnell?
(a) slapped her with his gloves
(b) showed her his backside
(c) stepped on her toes
(d) spit tobacco juice in her eye

5. Where does Stephen keep himself during the football game?
(a) on the fringes of his line
(b) In the thick of the action
(c) on the bench
(d) next to the prefect

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Stephen exempted from his classes?

2. After the punishment, what are Flemming and Stephen told to do?

3. During table conversation, what is a local Catholic priest accused of?

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

5. What limits the omniscience of the narrator of the story?

(see the answer key)

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