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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. Whose house does the narrator run past?
(a) Delaney's.
(b) Mathers'.
(c) Pluck's.
(d) Fox's.

2. What is different about Meers?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is a young girl.
(c) She has a wedding ring.
(d) She is an old lady.

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

4. What is de Selby's idea of heaven bound up with?
(a) Fire.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Water.

5. Why is Pluck reluctant to put the narrator in a cell?
(a) He wants the cell free for someone else.
(b) He does not like to coop people up.
(c) He keeps his bicycle there.
(d) He wants to sleep in the cell himself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Pluck show the narrator?

3. Why does MacCruiskeen run light through his mangle?

4. Who does the narrator say goodbye to in this chapter?

5. What is different about Divney?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator see when he arrives back at his house?

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

3. Why does the narrator think the police cannot hang him?

4. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

5. How does McCruiskeen plan to defeat the one-legged men?

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

7. Describe the story Pluck tells about the man who went up in a balloon?

8. How does the narrator arrive back at the beginning of the story?

9. How did MacCruiskeen drive two men mad?

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

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