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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else other than water did de Selby's experiments require?
(a) Loud hammering.
(b) Screaming babies.
(c) Lots of shouting.
(d) Screaming girls.

2. What does the builder drop on his foot?
(a) A knife.
(b) A dart.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A brick.

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

4. Whose house does the narrator run past?
(a) Fox's.
(b) Pluck's.
(c) Mathers'.
(d) Delaney's.

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

6. What is the builder's leg made from?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Wood.
(c) Stone.
(d) Metal.

7. Why does MacCruiskeen run light through his mangle?
(a) To make sparks.
(b) To see what happens.
(c) To increase its durability.
(d) To lengthen the waves of energy.

8. What is Divney doing when the narrator enters his house?
(a) Reading.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Laughing.

9. What does Pluck say happened to the man who went up in a balloon?
(a) He landed on Mars.
(b) He aged thirty years.
(c) He caught a bad cold.
(d) He disappeared.

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

11. What do the police have in Mathers' house?
(a) A holding cell.
(b) A communications room.
(c) A hideout.
(d) A police station.

12. What does Pluck show the narrator?
(a) His sore feet.
(b) His flat bicycle tire.
(c) A map of the area.
(d) Pictures of his children.

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

14. What does the narrator do when Divney says he killed him?
(a) Runs away.
(b) Kills Divney's boy.
(c) Spits at Divney.
(d) Kills Divney.

15. What has MacCruiskeen left at the police barracks?
(a) His spear.
(b) Keys.
(c) A gun.
(d) His bicycle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do Pluck and MacCruiskeen sleep?

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

4. What does the narrator eventually arrive back to?

5. What does MacCrusikeen do until dark?

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