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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 the rector announce to the class?
(a) a retreat over the next few days
(b) an early dismissal for the next few days
(c) tests for a scholarship program
(d) extra credit for serving as altarboys

2. What distracting sight does Stephen come upon while he wades in the water?
(a) a beautiful girl standing in the water gazing out to sea
(b) a passing ship headed for new adventures
(c) a porpoise leaping in the salty water
(d) a long legged crane perched on one leg

3. How does Stephen now view the guardians of his boyhood?
(a) as necessary influences
(b) as means of controlling him
(c) as the factor that has made him strong
(d) as ways of keeping him ignorant

4. What do Stephen and Aubrey Mills formulate?
(a) a blood brother pact
(b) a team to make money
(c) ways to meet girls
(d) imaginary adventures

5. Although he purposefully enters the brothel, how does he feel later?
(a) numbed as though he had not gone in
(b) disturbed that he cannot save the workers there
(c) wounded and shamed by much of what he perceives there
(d) justified that he acted only out of nature

Short Answer Questions

1. By summer, where has the family moved?

2. What does the rector say the retreat signifies?

3. Who bumps Stephen into a square ditch of slimy, cold water?

4. What happens to Stephen's voice as he gets to his major sin?

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

(see the answer key)

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