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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Plunk say too much starch in his clothes gave him?
(a) A fast leak.
(b) A bad stomach.
(c) A slow leak.
(d) Bad wind.

2. What does the narrator work up the courage to ask about?
(a) The patent colors.
(b) The money box.
(c) Bicycle atoms.
(d) The invisible spear.

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

4. Who does Pluck claim is the murderer?
(a) Fox.
(b) The narrator.
(c) O'Corky.
(d) Himself.

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

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

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

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

9. What was the last thing the authorities hanged?
(a) A telephone.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A dog.
(d) A car.

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

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

12. What does MacCruiskeen lose when Gilhaney sends him flying?
(a) His invisible chest.
(b) His police report.
(c) His wedding ring.
(d) His invisible box.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who in the narrator's dream takes offense at him?

3. Which of de Selby's books does the narrator talk about in this chapter?

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

5. What does MacCruiskeen say is happening at eternity?

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