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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 was Mather's job?

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

3. What member of his family does Pluck say turned into a horse?

4. When does Mathers say a person has the color of wind?

5. What does Pluck say Gilhaney is turning into?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does de Selby say about mirrors?

2. What does de Selby say about movement?

3. Why does the narrator have a wooden leg?

4. What changes as the narrator walks down the road?

5. How does the narrator describe the spear MacCruiskeen shows him?

6. How do Divney and the narrator murder Mathers?

7. How does the stranger say he can help the narrator?

8. What does Mathers tells the narrator about the policeman at the police barracks?

9. What does the stranger reveal about himself?

10. What does Pluck say about his atom theory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the book's reception in three different countries including the country in which the book was written. How do their opinions about the books differ? Was the book more influential in one country than another? If so, why?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Why does O'Brien end the play with the narrator waiting for Divney? Could have ended the novel another way? What meaning would that new ending have given the novel?

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