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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What suddenly awakens in Stephen as he revels in nature along the breakwater?
(a) a better understanding of his family
(b) a new found creativity
(c) a desire to return to the church
(d) a longing for security

2. What is Stephen coming to believe about gaining wisdom?
(a) It must be learned through study.
(b) It must come from his own experience.
(c) It must involve his family.
(d) It must happen through a miracle.

3. What worries Stephen about his devotions?
(a) that no degree of devotion shall ever be enough
(b) that there is not enough time in the day to do them all
(c) that he is not doing them the right way
(d) that he is forgetting some improtant devltions

4. Who does not want Stephen to go to the university?
(a) his mother
(b) the Jesuits
(c) Stephen
(d) his brothers and sisters

5. Whose innocence does Stephen remember trampling on?
(a) a girl named Emma
(b) a young prostitute
(c) Mercedes
(d) the girl on the tram

6. What does Stephen think about when he hears his name called?
(a) what a strange name he has
(b) startled that he almost forgot his real name
(c) Jesus calling his disciples to follow him
(d) the Greek myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus as prophecy

7. What begins to needle him and cause minor disruptions to his devotions?
(a) the teasing of other boys
(b) images of Emma in his head
(c) remembering the girl on the tram
(d) imperfections in himself

8. What does Stephen discover when he returns home from the director's office?
(a) His father is in the hospital.
(b) The family is being forced to move again.
(c) Uncle Charles has died.
(d) They are all excited about his becoming a priest.

9. What keeps him from confessing his unworthiness and walking out of the chapel?
(a) the Virgin Mary
(b) the fear of God
(c) the priest is watching him
(d) the peacefulness of the chapel

10. What does Stephen feel by allowing sin to creep near to him before resisting it at the last moment?
(a) a sense of power
(b) a terrible fear
(c) like playing a joke on the devil
(d) an intolerable weakness

11. What is Stephen's condition as he leaves the retreat?
(a) Stephen is so sick he fears he may have already died.
(b) Stephen is happy that he has overcome his lusts.
(c) Stephen is determined to leave the Church.
(d) Stephen is rebellious against all he had heard.

12. What does Stephen think when he sees his friends playing in the water?
(a) how they look characterless and pitiable in their nakedness
(b) how they seem happy and without a care in the world
(c) how confident they appear against his insecurities
(d) how much stronger their bodies appear than his does

13. What goes through Stephen's head as he enters the confessional?
(a) He anticipates great relief afterward.
(b) He wonders if the priest will recognize his voice.
(c) He considers running away.
(d) He wishes his sin had been any but the one it is.

14. What does the preacher say is available to the living to spare them from this everlasting torment?
(a) vows
(b) unqualified absolution
(c) repentance
(d) candles and incense

15. What does Stephen seem to hear now that he has changed the course of his life?
(a) symphonies of opportunity
(b) noisey clanging of discord
(c) raindrops falling on his head
(d) strains of elfin music filled with nature

Short Answer Questions

1. Leaving the director's office, what does Stephen think about the life offered him?

2. As he goes outside, what serves to increase his piety?

3. How does the preacher define sin?

4. When does the preacher say the soul of the sinner is judged, and the time for repentance is passed?

5. Going through all these strict devotions, how does Stephen come to feel about himself?

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