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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people like to lean against when they become bikes?
(a) Gates.
(b) Posts.
(c) Walls.
(d) Trees.

2. What does the man sitting near the narrator reveal himself to be?
(a) A builder.
(b) A murderer.
(c) A tramp.
(d) A writer.

3. What does the narrator say has changed since he entered Mathers' house?
(a) The seasons.
(b) The air.
(c) His sense of danger.
(d) His mood.

4. Who does Pluck say slept in the bed next to the narrator?
(a) Himself.
(b) Dilaney.
(c) Mathers.
(d) Fox.

5. Which of the policeman does Mathers say has been missing for twenty-five years?
(a) MacCruiskeen.
(b) Pluck.
(c) Fox.
(d) Davis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the boy first consider when de Selby confused him with insolvable problems?

2. What career did the boy de Selby confused eventually turn to?

3. According to Pluck what does a bicycle rider eventually become?

4. What does Finnucane point the narrator towards?

5. Who does the narrator set off to find the next morning?

(see the answer key)

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