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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does de Selby claim life is a series of?
(a) Quick movements.
(b) Flash movements.
(c) Still movements.
(d) Slow movements.

2. What did the neighbors form to force the man to tell them where he had been?
(a) A Christian group.
(b) A Spanish Inquisition.
(c) A vigilante group.
(d) A small army.

3. What does Pluck compare the slow leak in his clothes to?
(a) A balloon.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A petrol tanker.
(d) A bicycle tire.

4. What is the name of the third policeman?
(a) Harris.
(b) Fox.
(c) MacCluskey.
(d) Davis.

5. Where does the narrator lie down to sleep?
(a) A riverbank.
(b) A ditch.
(c) A canal boat.
(d) A park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does de Selby believe is a hallucination?

2. Other than his wooden leg what else does Martin share with the narrator?

3. Which of de Selby's books does the narrator talk about in this chapter?

4. Who does the narrator see sitting in the corner of the room?

5. Why is Pluck reluctant to put the narrator in a cell?

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