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

2. What does the builder drop on his foot?
(a) A brick.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A knife.
(d) A dart.

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

4. What man other than Fox was driven mad by MacCruiskeen's cards?
(a) Andy Gara.
(b) Michael Dilaney.
(c) Bill Mathers.
(d) james O'Connor.

5. What does Pluck compare the slow leak in his clothes to?
(a) A bicycle tire.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A petrol tanker.
(d) A balloon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator do when Divney says he killed him?

3. When is the narrator scheduled to be hanged?

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

5. What is attempting to escape from the holding cell?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Summarize the novel.

9. How does the narrator get a reprieve?

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

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