Students are to finish reading Portrait and complete the following questions:

The last section is a lot like the first section. It is a confluence of all the threads and all the development used so far. Have patience with it.

Answer the following questions fully.
1. Why do you suppose Stephen is so fascinated with Cranly's parents?
Is Stephen the product of exhausted loins?
Explain.
2. Why does Emma have such a prominent role in the notes?
3. Why would he come back to religion, according to his mother?
Do you agree with her?
Explain.
4. Whose is the race of clodhoppers?
Where in the notes does he contradict this thought?
5. Interpret Stephen's dream.
6. What is the answer to Cranly's riddle?
7. Why does Simon Daedalus like Davin so much?
8. Tara is an Irish heaven, Holyhead is an Irish port.
What is the meaning of Steven's line?
9. Note the bogwater line. Who are the apple blossoms and what is the pond water?
10. Why does Stephen fear the red eyed old man?
What does he stand for?
11. Why does Emma like Stephen all of a sudden?
12. Where does the bird imagery come in again?
13. What does his mother wish for him?
What does he wish for himself?
14. Why, if he is forging the uncreated conscience of his race, is he encountering the reality of experience for the millionth time?
15. How are we to take the last line?
Explain its presence.