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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rumor about the five boys who ran away from Clongowes?

2. What happens when summer vacation is over for Stephen?

3. At school, what is the unusual word Stephen sees carved into a desk?

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

5. For what does Stephen continually search?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Stephen's first encounter with the girl on the tram.

2. Detail Stephen's experience at acting in a play at school.

3. Tell how Stephen begins to look at his country in a different way.

4. Describe the sixteen-year-old Stephen's confession.

5. Describe Stephen's feelings about himself faced with the upcoming retreat.

6. Show how Stephen begins to weaken in his devotion to God.

7. How does Stephen encounter the dean of studies?

8. Describe the conflict in Stephen as he leaves the director's office.

9. Describe Stephen's weekdays in Blackrock.

10. Why does Stephen take a train trip with his father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the importance of self-reliance. By contrast to Stephen, it was Cranly who was ultimately alone. In your essay explain how being self-reliant actually makes a person more attractive to others.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about dysfunctional families like Stephen's. In what ways were they dysfunctional? In your essay talk about finances, religious differences, and living conditions which contribute to the dysfunction of a family.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on obsessions. At age sixteen, Stephen's obsession was sex. However, people become obsessed by many other thing--making money, playing video games, drinking and partying, just to name a few. In your essay discuss how people get caught up in certain obsessions and how they tend to put themselves in situations where they can satisfy those desires.

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