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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. Where does Divney say he hid the bomb?
(a) In Mathers' money box.
(b) In Mathers' bedroom.
(c) In the narrator's study room.
(d) In the narrator's car.

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

3. What kind of bicycle does the narrator say Gilhaney has?
(a) A high percentage bicycle.
(b) A atomless bicycle.
(c) A windless bicycle.
(d) A gravity defying bicycle.

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

5. What was the last thing the authorities hanged?
(a) A car.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A dog.
(d) A telephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the next person to come into the police barracks?

2. What does MacCruiskeen say is happening at eternity?

3. What does the narrator say someone stole from him?

4. Where does Pluck find a note from Fox?

5. What will Pluck and his men wear to protect them from MacCruiskeen's bike?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did MacCruiskeen drive two men mad?

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

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

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

7. What does the narrator see when he arrives back at his house?

8. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

9. Summarize the novel.

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

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