1. Where does the story take place?
A) Cork
B) Galway
C) Dublin ✅
D) Belfast
2. What type of street is North Richmond Street described as?
A) Bustling and lively
B) Blind and quiet ✅
C) Narrow and dangerous
D) Long and curved
3. What causes North Richmond Street to briefly become lively?
A) Morning market
B) Dismissal of boys from Christian Brothers’ School ✅
C) Evening prayers
D) Delivery carts arriving
4. What stands at the blind end of North Richmond Street?
A) A grocery store
B) A playground
C) An uninhabited two-storey house ✅
D) A bakery
5. How are the houses on the street described?
A) Vibrant and cheerful
B) Brown imperturbable faces ✅
C) Modern and clean
D) Bright and welcoming
6. Who lived in the narrator’s house before him?
A) A schoolteacher
B) A priest ✅
C) A retired soldier
D) A politician
7. What does the narrator find in the waste room of the house?
A) Dolls and ribbons
B) Musty air and old papers ✅
C) Toys and marbles
D) Paintings and statues
8. Which of the following books was the narrator’s favorite?
A) The Abbot
B) The Devout Communicant
C) The Memoirs of Vidocq ✅
D) Ulysses
9. What object belonging to the priest was found in the garden?
A) A walking stick
B) A pair of glasses
C) A rusty bicycle-pump ✅
D) A worn Bible
10. What does the garden contain?
A) Rose bushes
B) An apple tree and straggling bushes ✅
C) A vegetable patch
D) A pond and reeds
11. What are the seasonal details in the story’s setting?
A) Summer afternoons
B) Rainy spring days
C) Early winter evenings with violet skies and muddy lanes ✅
D) Autumn leaves and dry wind
12. Who is the narrator infatuated with?
A) Mrs. Mercer
B) His aunt
C) Mangan’s sister ✅
D) A bazaar girl
13. What emotion does the narrator feel most often regarding Mangan’s sister?
A) Hatred
B) Boredom
C) Emotional confusion and longing ✅
D) Fear
14. What does Mangan’s sister ask the narrator?
A) To help her with studies
B) If he’s going to Araby ✅
C) To visit the church
D) To read a book
15. Why can’t Mangan’s sister go to Araby?
A) She is sick
B) She has a family event
C) She has a convent retreat ✅
D) She has to babysit
16. What delays the narrator from going to Araby?
A) A storm
B) His uncle comes home late and forgets ✅
C) He loses his ticket
D) His aunt forbids him
17. What does Mrs. Mercer do?
A) A flower vendor
B) A pawnbroker’s widow who collects stamps ✅
C) A schoolteacher
D) A church caretaker
18. What is the narrator given for Araby?
A) Half a crown
B) A florin ✅
C) One pound note
D) A shilling
19. What time does the narrator arrive at Araby?
A) 8 p.m.
B) 11:30 p.m.
C) Around 10 minutes to 10 p.m. ✅
D) 6 p.m.
20. What does the narrator find when he gets to the bazaar?
A) A magical market
B) Closed stalls and a dark hall ✅
C) A lively fairground
D) His friends waiting
21. How does the young lady at the stall react to the narrator?
A) Flirtatious and kind
B) Angry and loud
C) Disinterested ✅
D) Excited to sell
22. What emotion does the story end with?
A) Relief and peace
B) Anguish and anger ✅
C) Joy and success
D) Confusion and detachment
