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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 look like?
(a) Pluck.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Mathers.
(d) Dilaney.

2. What is the builder's leg made from?
(a) Stone.
(b) Wood.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Metal.

3. What else other than water did de Selby's experiments require?
(a) Loud hammering.
(b) Screaming babies.
(c) Lots of shouting.
(d) Screaming girls.

4. What does Fox say he used the omnium for?
(a) To fix his shoes.
(b) To wallpaper his police station.
(c) To stick up posters.
(d) To fix a door.

5. What is different about Divney?
(a) He looks much older.
(b) He looks much younger.
(c) He looks like a bicycle.
(d) He looks like the devil.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Plunk say too much starch in his clothes gave him?

4. Who sent up another balloon to find the man?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did de Selby once confuse a boy about the boy's problems?

2. Why is de Selby's Codex impossible to decipher?

3. Summarize the novel.

4. How does the narrator describe the map Pluck shows him?

5. Why do the policeman consent to show the narrator what their figures mean?

6. How have the one legged men disguised themselves?

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

8. What does de Selby say about heaven?

9. What does de Selby believe about the shape of the world?

10. How does the narrator get the builder to help him?

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