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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What about his life in the past does Stephen now wonder about?
(a) why he had been born
(b) why he refused the priesthood
(c) why his family always had such bad luck
(d) why he always thinks too much

3. How does Stephen react to the announcement of the rector?
(a) He plans to be sick next Friday.
(b) His heart withers with fear.
(c) His attitude is one of boredom.
(d) He is glad he will have a chance to reform.

4. What is detailed by cramped conditions, the darkness, the stench, the fires, the enraged howls and suffering screams of the damned, and the mocking of devils?
(a) the prison for those who commit murder
(b) the eternal suffering in hell
(c) the heads of people who willfully sin
(d) the treatment Jesus endured at the hands of man

5. What does Stephen do after running in ecstasy along the beach?
(a) returns to look for the girl
(b) runs home to tell his mother
(c) goes home to write poetry
(d) lies down and falls asleep

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rector announce to the class?

2. Whose innocence does Stephen remember trampling on?

3. How does Stephen begin seeing himself?

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

5. How does Stephen now view his life?

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