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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 narrator work up the courage to ask about?
(a) The money box.
(b) The patent colors.
(c) The invisible spear.
(d) Bicycle atoms.

2. What does MacCruiskeen run through his mangle?
(a) Tea.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Light.
(d) Liquid.

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

4. What does Pluck say happened to the man who went up in a balloon?
(a) He aged thirty years.
(b) He caught a bad cold.
(c) He landed on Mars.
(d) He disappeared.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the light do when MacCruiskeen runs it through the mangle?

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

4. Why does MacCruiskeen run light through his mangle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator get a reprieve?

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

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

4. What does de Selby say about heaven?

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

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

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

8. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

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

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

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