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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the light do when MacCruiskeen runs it through the mangle?
(a) Blinks.
(b) Screams.
(c) Cries.
(d) Flashes.

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

6. What does MacCruiskeen say he is going to paint his bicycle?
(a) The color his mother painted his room.
(b) The color of the devil.
(c) The color of eternity.
(d) The color that drove Fox mad.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What kind of bicycle does the narrator say Gilhaney has?
(a) A gravity defying bicycle.
(b) A high percentage bicycle.
(c) A windless bicycle.
(d) A atomless bicycle.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What man other than Fox was driven mad by MacCruiskeen's cards?

2. Where does the road past the police station lead to?

3. Who does Pluck say slept in the bed next to the narrator?

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

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

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