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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Stephen imagine he will live when he gets married?
(a) in a small, whitewashed house outside of Blackrock
(b) on a houseboat
(c) in a three storey house in Dublin
(d) in an apartment in London

2. What does Stephen figure out about his not returning to Clongowes?
(a) It signifies a change in his father's finances.
(b) They plan to send him to England to study.
(c) From then on he will be home schooled.
(d) His father has converted to Protestantism.

3. While onstage delivering his lines, who does Stephen see in the audience?
(a) Uncle Charles and Dante
(b) the girl from the tram
(c) his father with a strange woman
(d) Father Arnall

4. What does Stephen complain about to the rector?
(a) unjust punishment
(b) broken fingers
(c) broken blood vessels in his hands
(d) Father Dolan interfering in Father Arnall's class

5. What is the literary method used in the novel?
(a) stream of consciousness
(b) chronological account
(c) metaphor and irony
(d) parody

6. What job is given to Stephen?
(a) doing laundry
(b) carrying messages
(c) delivering newspapers
(d) unpacking boxes

7. What choice is given two of the older boys after the group of runaways is returned to Clongowes?
(a) a choice between flogging or public humiliation
(b) a choice between flogging and expulsion
(c) a choice between flogging or the stocks
(d) a choice between flogging or the gauntlet

8. What was Stephen's early song?
(a) O, the Wild Rose Blooms
(b) The Irish Lullaby
(c) Old Dan tucker
(d) In the Gloaming

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

10. Who suggests that Stephen broke his glasses himself in order to get out of his schoolwork?
(a) Father Dolan
(b) the bully Wells
(c) Tusker Boyle
(d) Father Arnall

11. For what does Stephen continually search?
(a) for his Mercedes
(b) for his friend Aubrey
(c) for his fortune
(d) for a job

12. What are Stephen's father and the priests always urging him to do?
(a) to enter the priesthood
(b) to be a gentleman and a good Catholic
(c) to confess his sins daily
(d) to work harder at his lessons

13. How do the boys see Stephen after he talks with the rector?
(a) as a hero
(b) as a tattle tale
(c) as an enemy
(d) as a sneak

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

15. What habit does Stephen hang onto?
(a) his habit of obedience
(b) his habit of cutting classes
(c) his habit of writing poems
(d) his habit of eavesdropping

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Stephen and Aubrey do in the meadow?

2. What does Stephen do immediately after the play?

3. What results from Stephen's fall into the ditch?

4. What happens to Stephen's hands when Father Dolan does not believe his glasses broke by accident?

5. After Blackrock, where does the family move?

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