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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Pluck compare the slow leak in his clothes to?
(a) An airplane.
(b) A bicycle tire.
(c) A balloon.
(d) A petrol tanker.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Who does Pluck say slept in the bed next to the narrator?
(a) Dilaney.
(b) Himself.
(c) Mathers.
(d) Fox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pluck claim is the murderer?

2. What does the narrator work up the courage to ask about?

3. What does MacCruiskeen say is the stuff of everything?

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

5. Who is the next person to come into the police barracks?

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