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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 does MacCruiskeen say he is going to paint his bicycle?
(a) The color of the devil.
(b) The color his mother painted his room.
(c) The color that drove Fox mad.
(d) The color of eternity.

2. What is attempting to escape from the holding cell?
(a) Pluck's pet rat.
(b) Pluck's telephone.
(c) Pluck's car.
(d) Pluck's bicycle.

3. What is Divney doing when the narrator enters his house?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Reading.

4. Who is Divney standing next to?
(a) A young boy.
(b) A young girl.
(c) A goat.
(d) Mathers.

5. Who sent up another balloon to find the man?
(a) His neighbors.
(b) His children.
(c) His parents.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the builder drop on his foot?

3. Who does O'Corky announce has been murdered?

4. Which of de Selby's books does the narrator talk about in this chapter?

5. Why does Divney claim the narrator can't be there?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Pluck think all modes of transport are dangerous?

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

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

4. How have the one legged men disguised themselves?

5. How did MacCruiskeen drive two men mad?

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

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

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

9. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

10. How does the Codex relate to the situation the narrator finds himself in?

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