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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 is happening at eternity?
(a) An acting class.
(b) A poetry recitation.
(c) Construction work.
(d) A dangerous reading.

2. Who does Pluck say slept in the bed next to the narrator?
(a) Mathers.
(b) Dilaney.
(c) Himself.
(d) Fox.

3. How have the wooden-legged men disguised themselves?
(a) By wearing gas masks.
(b) By using wheelchairs.
(c) By wearing medical uniform.
(d) By binding themselves in pairs.

4. What does the light do when MacCruiskeen runs it through the mangle?
(a) Blinks.
(b) Cries.
(c) Screams.
(d) Flashes.

5. What does the narrator eventually arrive back to?
(a) The beginning of the story.
(b) The local church.
(c) His house,
(d) His childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Divney say he used to kill the narrator?

2. What do MacCruiskeen and Pluck confer over?

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

4. Where does the narrator ride to at the beginning of the chapter?

5. What does Pluck show the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How have the one legged men disguised themselves?

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

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

7. Summarize the novel.

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

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

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

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