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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. Who does Fox say is on the way to save the narrator?
(a) Seven one-legged men.
(b) Eight blind maids.
(c) Five death builders.
(d) Six spineless frogs.

2. Why does Divney claim the narrator can't be there?
(a) He killed him.
(b) He set him to America.
(c) He can't walk.
(d) He died of cancer.

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

4. What does MacCruiskeen say is happening at eternity?
(a) An acting class.
(b) A dangerous reading.
(c) A poetry recitation.
(d) Construction work.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is MacCruiskeen working on when Gilvaney enters the office?

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

4. Who does the inspector think has murdered Mathers?

5. Whose house does the narrator stop to look at?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the novel.

2. Where does Pluck take the narrator in this chapter?

3. How did MacCruiskeen drive two men mad?

4. What does the narrator see outside of Mathers' house?

5. How have the one legged men disguised themselves?

6. How does the narrator get a reprieve?

7. What does the narrator dream about at the beginning of the chapter?

8. What does Fox tell the narrator about the money box?

9. What does de Selby say about heaven?

10. Why does the narrator fall in love with the bicycle in this chapter?

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