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

2. When is the narrator scheduled to be hanged?
(a) The beginning of the next month.
(b) The afternoon.
(c) The beginning of the next week.
(d) The morning.

3. What do MacCruiskeen and Pluck confer over?
(a) Telephone numbers.
(b) Figures.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Reports.

4. Who sent up another balloon to find the man?
(a) His wife.
(b) His parents.
(c) His neighbors.
(d) His children.

5. What does Plunk say too much starch in his clothes gave him?
(a) A bad stomach.
(b) Bad wind.
(c) A fast leak.
(d) A slow leak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did de Selby undergo many lawsuits to obtain?

2. Why does MacCruiskeen run light through his mangle?

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

4. What does MacCrusikeen do until dark?

5. What does MacCruiskeen say he is going to paint his bicycle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did MacCruiskeen drive two men mad?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does de Selby say about heaven?

8. Why does Pluck think all modes of transport are dangerous?

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

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

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