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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After dinner, why does Stephen march out of the house?
(a) to find a chapel in which to confess
(b) to go by the brothels to see if he can overcome his lusts
(c) to find Emma and beg her forgiveness
(d) to return to school and see Father Arnall

3. What does the preacher say awaits those who do not make use of the atonement of Christ to right their relationship with God?
(a) oblivion
(b) excommunication
(c) hell
(d) purgatory

4. What is a major theme of the book?
(a) Irish nationalism and Irish identity
(b) Catholic education versus public education
(c) Coming of age
(d) Catholicism versus Protestantism

5. What does Stephen pretend not to notice when his mother says goodbye to him at school?
(a) that her hat was on backwards
(b) that she was in a hurry to leave
(c) that she wore too much perfume
(d) that she was going to cry

Short Answer Questions

1. What results when Stephen is bullied again?

2. What was Stephen's early song?

3. What does the preacher say is available to the living to spare them from this everlasting torment?

4. Where does Stephen imagine he will live when he gets married?

5. What keeps him from confessing his unworthiness and walking out of the chapel?

(see the answer key)

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