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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 was going to cry
(d) that she wore too much perfume

2. How does Stephen evaluate Cranly's speech?
(a) as profound and finteresting
(b) as so many bees in a bottle
(c) as words to live by
(d) as echoing the bleak quays of Dublin

3. Why is Stephen exempted from his classes?
(a) because his glasses are broken
(b) because he broke his arm
(c) because he was perfect on his exams
(d) because he is still running a fever

4. Who does Stephen know for sure is in the audience for a play he is in at school?
(a) Aubrey
(b) Dante
(c) Uncle Charles
(d) his father

5. What do the older men Stephen walks with usually talk about?
(a) gambling and drinking
(b) religion and business
(c) Irish legends and music
(d) mostly of politics and family legends

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who suggests that Stephen broke his glasses himself in order to get out of his schoolwork?

3. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?

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

5. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?

(see the answer key)

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