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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mathers say the other policemen can be found?

2. What career did the boy de Selby confused eventually turn to?

3. What is so thin on the spear that it is invisible?

4. What do bicycles lean against in people's houses?

5. Who does Pluck say Gilhaney tricked into riding his bicycle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator do as he walks down the road?

2. How does the narrator describe the police barracks?

3. Why does Pluck think Gilaney is lecherous?

4. Where does Pluck find the bicycle and all its parts?

5. What does Pluck say about the figures he looks over with MacCruiskeen?

6. What does Pluck say bicycles do during bad weather?

7. How does Divney change the atmosphere at the pub?

8. What does the stranger reveal about himself?

9. Why is MacCruiskeen's piano special?

10. What does Pluck assume about the narrator because he has no name?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the narrator's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did the narrator hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes the narrator's ideas about life?

3. How has the narrator's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Pick two characters from the book and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motives? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 3

Aside from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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