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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the inspector think has murdered Mathers?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Finnucane.
(c) Pluck.
(d) Fox.

2. What man other than Fox was driven mad by MacCruiskeen's cards?
(a) Bill Mathers.
(b) Michael Dilaney.
(c) Andy Gara.
(d) james O'Connor.

3. Who does Fox look like?
(a) Dilaney.
(b) Mathers.
(c) Pluck.
(d) The narrator.

4. What does Fox say he used the omnium for?
(a) To wallpaper his police station.
(b) To fix a door.
(c) To stick up posters.
(d) To fix his shoes.

5. Where does Divney say he hid the bomb?
(a) In Mathers' money box.
(b) In the narrator's car.
(c) In Mathers' bedroom.
(d) In the narrator's study room.

6. Why does the narrator think they cannot hang him?
(a) He has no name.
(b) They need him.
(c) He is innocent.
(d) He has no bicycle.

7. What does MacCruiskeen run through his mangle?
(a) Liquid.
(b) Tea.
(c) Light.
(d) Electricity.

8. What does the narrator eventually arrive back to?
(a) The beginning of the story.
(b) The local church.
(c) His house,
(d) His childhood.

9. What does Divney say he used to kill the narrator?
(a) A gun.
(b) A knife.
(c) A bomb.
(d) A brick.

10. When is the narrator scheduled to be hanged?
(a) The beginning of the next month.
(b) The morning.
(c) The beginning of the next week.
(d) The afternoon.

11. What do MacCruiskeen and Pluck confer over?
(a) Reports.
(b) Figures.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Telephone numbers.

12. What does Fox say was in the money box?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Omnium.
(c) Bicycle atoms.
(d) Money.

13. Who does O'Corky announce has been murdered?
(a) Franklin.
(b) Mathers.
(c) De Selby.
(d) Fox.

14. What does the narrator throw through the lighted window?
(a) A mug.
(b) A stone.
(c) A brick.
(d) A bicycle.

15. Where do Pluck and MacCruiskeen sleep?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Eternity.
(c) A cafe.
(d) A hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does MacCruiskeen run light through his mangle?

2. How does Pluck say they will punish the narrator?

3. What does Pluck compare the slow leak in his clothes to?

4. What does Pluck say happened to the man who went up in a balloon?

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

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