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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 the name of the local man who enters the police barracks?

2. What does Divney hide while the narrator beats Mathers to death?

3. What is so thin on the spear that it is invisible?

4. What does the narrator call his book about de Selby?

5. What do bicycles lean against in people's houses?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the stranger reveal about himself?

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

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

5. How does the narrator perplex Sergeant Pluck?

6. Why does Pluck think Gilaney is lecherous?

7. What happens when the narrator opens the moneybox?

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

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

10. How does the narrator describe the police barracks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is the novel's premise? Why are premises are so important to a story?

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