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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What of the following does de Selby claim he did not use to make a journey?
(a) Barometers.
(b) Clocks.
(c) Cogs.
(d) Photos.

2. What is Mathers' birth color?
(a) Dark blue.
(b) Light yellow.
(c) Light green.
(d) Dark red.

3. Who does Pluck say a watch cannot belong to?
(a) A dead person.
(b) A murderer.
(c) Someone with no name.
(d) An Irishman.

4. What is different about Mathers' neck?
(a) It is has split open.
(b) It is green.
(c) It looks longer.
(d) It is bandaged.

5. What does the narrator call his book about de Selby?
(a) De Selby Uncovered.
(b) The de Selby Index.
(c) De Selby Way.
(d) The de Selby Insight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the second policeman who enters the office?

2. What does Pluck claim is dangerous?

3. What medium does de Selby compare life to?

4. Who does Divney suggest he and narrator rob and murder?

5. What color is the money box?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the narrator opens the moneybox?

2. How does Divney change the atmosphere at the pub?

3. How does the narrator become obsessed with the philosopher, de Selby?

4. How does the narrator describe the police barracks?

5. What does de Selby say about movement?

6. How does the narrator describe the spear MacCruiskeen shows him?

7. How do people change into bicycles and bicycles change into people?

8. What does Pluck say bicycles do during bad weather?

9. Why does the narrator think it is not a good idea to say no to everything?

10. How does the narrator describe the boxes MacCruiskeen shows him?

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