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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 do bicycles go during bad weather?

2. What does Pluck claim is dangerous?

3. What does the narrator help Pluck look for?

4. Where does the narrator lie down to sleep?

5. What name does the narrator give his soul?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does de Selby say about movement?

2. How do Divney and the narrator murder Mathers?

3. How does Pluck respond to the narrator's claim someone has stolen his gold watch?

4. Why does Pluck think Gilaney is lecherous?

5. What does Pluck say about his atom theory?

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

7. What is de Selby's opinion on houses?

8. What does de Selby say about roads?

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

10. What does Mathers tell the narrator about wind?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Replace the book's setting with one of the following settings:

1. Mexico.

2. USA.

3. Britain.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

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