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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did de Selby undergo many lawsuits to obtain?
(a) Men.
(b) Water.
(c) Fire.
(d) Women.

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

6. What is different about Divney?
(a) He looks much older.
(b) He looks like the devil.
(c) He looks much younger.
(d) He looks like a bicycle.

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

8. Who does the narrator send the builder to talk to?
(a) Dilaney.
(b) Finnucane.
(c) Joe.
(d) Fox.

9. Where does the road past the police station lead to?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Death.
(c) Eternity.
(d) Hell.

10. Who does the narrator say goodbye to in this chapter?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His parents.
(c) His brain.
(d) His soul.

11. How have the wooden-legged men disguised themselves?
(a) By using wheelchairs.
(b) By wearing medical uniform.
(c) By binding themselves in pairs.
(d) By wearing gas masks.

12. What happens to the narrator when his soul leaves him?
(a) He turns to God.
(b) He turns evil.
(c) He has a panic attack.
(d) He dies.

13. Who does Fox say is on the way to save the narrator?
(a) Five death builders.
(b) Six spineless frogs.
(c) Seven one-legged men.
(d) Eight blind maids.

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

15. Where does the narrator ride to at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) His house.
(b) Dilaney's house.
(c) The police barracks.
(d) Eternity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is de Selby's idea of heaven bound up with?

2. What does Fox say was in the money box?

3. What do the police have in Mathers' house?

4. What does the light do when MacCruiskeen runs it through the mangle?

5. Why does the narrator think they cannot hang him?

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