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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. What does Finnucane point the narrator towards?

2. What does MacCruiskeen show the narrator after the spear?

3. What does Divney use to hit Mathers?

4. What does the narrator think the policemen can help him find?

5. What does the narrator make up for himself as he walks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the police barracks?

2. Why does the narrator have a wooden leg?

3. How does the narrator become obsessed with the philosopher, de Selby?

4. What does Mathers tell the narrator about his own wind color?

5. What happens when the narrator opens the moneybox?

6. How does the narrator perplex Sergeant Pluck?

7. What does Pluck say about his atom theory?

8. What does Pluck say humans do when they turn into bicycles?

9. Why does Pluck think Gilaney is lecherous?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the construction of O'Brien's argument.

1. How does he introduce his ideas?

2. How does he construct his ideas to come to logical conclusion?

3. What weaknesses and strengths can you identify in O'Brien's argument?

Essay Topic 2

Why does O'Brien use so few settings? How does O'Brien create a world away from the few settings he uses? What colors and objects does O'Brien use and what meaning does it give to the setting?

Essay Topic 3

What are the main turning points of the book? How does O'Brien develop his story to get to each turning point? What happens to the story after a major turning point?

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