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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) Eight blind maids.
(b) Five death builders.
(c) Six spineless frogs.
(d) Seven one-legged men.

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

3. Who in the narrator's dream takes offense at him?
(a) His bicycle.
(b) His brain.
(c) His soul.
(d) His mother.

4. Where does the narrator ride to at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) The police barracks.
(b) Dilaney's house.
(c) His house.
(d) Eternity.

5. What did de Selby undergo many lawsuits to obtain?
(a) Water.
(b) Fire.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does MacCrusikeen do until dark?

2. Who is Divney standing next to?

3. Who does the narrator see through the window of his house?

4. What kind of bicycle does the narrator say Gilhaney has?

5. What has MacCruiskeen left at the police barracks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

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

5. How did MacCruiskeen drive two men mad?

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

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

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

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

10. Summarize the novel.

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