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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 has MacCruiskeen left at the police barracks?
(a) His bicycle.
(b) Keys.
(c) His spear.
(d) A gun.

2. Who does the narrator send the builder to talk to?
(a) Fox.
(b) Joe.
(c) Dilaney.
(d) Finnucane.

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

4. What does MacCrusikeen do until dark?
(a) Tells jokes.
(b) Plays his instrument
(c) Reads a book.
(d) Recites poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accosts the narrator at Mathers' house?

2. What does MacCruiskeen lose when Gilhaney sends him flying?

3. What does Fox say he used the omnium for?

4. What else other than water did de Selby's experiments require?

5. What is de Selby's idea of heaven bound up with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How have the one legged men disguised themselves?

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

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

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

5. What does de Selby say about heaven?

6. What does the narrator dream about at the beginning of the chapter?

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

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

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

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

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