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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Pluck find a note from Fox?
(a) In his shirt pocket.
(b) In his book.
(c) Behind his ear.
(d) At the breakfast table.

2. How does Pluck say they will punish the narrator?
(a) Electrocute him.
(b) Hang him.
(c) Gullotine him.
(d) Gas him.

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

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

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

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

7. What does MacCruiskeen think he can control if he can understand the screams?
(a) De Selby.
(b) Omnium.
(c) Atoms.
(d) Bicycles.

8. What is de Selby's idea of heaven bound up with?
(a) Women.
(b) Fire.
(c) Water.
(d) Men.

9. Who in the narrator's dream takes offense at him?
(a) His brain.
(b) His bicycle.
(c) His mother.
(d) His soul.

10. What does MacCrusikeen do until dark?
(a) Plays his instrument
(b) Recites poetry.
(c) Tells jokes.
(d) Reads a book.

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

12. What is attempting to escape from the holding cell?
(a) Pluck's bicycle.
(b) Pluck's pet rat.
(c) Pluck's telephone.
(d) Pluck's car.

13. What does MacCruiskeen put together after he is finished with his music?
(a) A telephone.
(b) A trumpet.
(c) A television.
(d) A mangle.

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

15. Who accosts the narrator at Mathers' house?
(a) Dilaney.
(b) Mathers.
(c) MacCruiskeen.
(d) Fox.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last thing the authorities hanged?

2. What is Divney doing when the narrator enters his house?

3. What happens to the narrator when his soul leaves him?

4. What will Pluck and his men wear to protect them from MacCruiskeen's bike?

5. Who is Divney standing next to?

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