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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 theory does Pluck explain to the narrator?

2. Where does Divney claim he hid the money?

3. What information does Mathers ask from the narrator?

4. What is transferred to a human when he or she rides a bike?

5. What part of the narrator's body do the doctors have to amputate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does de Selby say about mirrors?

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

7. Why does the narrator have a wooden leg?

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

9. How does Divney end up working on the farm?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

What is Mathers' role in the novel? How would think the novel would change if Mathers did not reappear after his death?

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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