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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does de Selby believe is a hallucination?
(a) Movement.
(b) Birth.
(c) Death.
(d) Speaking.

2. What does the narrator help Pluck look for?
(a) His gold watch.
(b) Mathers's money box.
(c) Gilhaney's bicycle.
(d) Diviney's gun.

3. What starts to go missing from the customers when Divney comes back with his new drink?
(a) Credit cards and gold chains.
(b) Cigars and snuff boxes.
(c) Money and watches.
(d) Shoes and hats.

4. Who is the next person to come into the police barracks?
(a) MacCruiskeen.
(b) Gilhaney.
(c) Mathers.
(d) Fox.

5. What do bicycles lean against in people's houses?
(a) Beds.
(b) Sofas.
(c) Kitchen counters.
(d) Deck chairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Divney suggest he and narrator rob and murder?

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

3. When does Fox come to the police barracks?

4. What kind of bicycle does the narrator say Gilhaney has?

5. What medium does de Selby compare life to?

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