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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator form such a deep attachment to Pluck's bike?
(a) He falls in love with the color.
(b) It reminds him of home.
(c) He likes its wheels.
(d) He thinks it is a woman.

2. What does the narrator throw through the lighted window?
(a) A mug.
(b) A brick.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A stone.

3. What does the narrator say someone stole from him?
(a) A bicycle pump.
(b) A bicycle lock.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A bicycle lamp.

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

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

6. What happens to you while you are in eternity?
(a) You don't change.
(b) You feel ill at ease.
(c) You grow old quickly.
(d) You grow younger.

7. What is MacCruiskeen working on when Gilvaney enters the office?
(a) An invisible chest.
(b) An invisible spear.
(c) An invisible telephone.
(d) An invisible mug.

8. Who does Pluck say wants to die?
(a) Fox.
(b) MacCruiskeen.
(c) Dilaney.
(d) The narrator.

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

10. Who does O'Corky announce has been murdered?
(a) Mathers.
(b) Fox.
(c) Franklin.
(d) De Selby.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do MacCruiskeen and Pluck confer over?

2. What is different about Meers?

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

4. Where do Pluck and MacCruiskeen sleep?

5. What else other than water did de Selby's experiments require?

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