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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 is Mathers' birth color?

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

3. What does the narrator say mocks him as he makes up names for himself?

4. Where does Divney wait as the narrator goes to find the moneybox?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the stranger reveal about himself?

3. What does de Selby say about movement?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does de Selby say about mirrors?

10. What does de Selby say about roads?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The author wrote THE THIRD POLICEMAN in the first person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the first person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the third person?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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