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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 does Pluck claim is dangerous?

2. Who does Pluck assume is the narrator's father?

3. What did the narrator's mother run?

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

5. Who does the narrator believe Mathers to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the stranger reveal about himself?

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

3. How does the narrator describe the boxes MacCruiskeen shows him?

4. What does Mathers say to the narrator?

5. What does Mathers tell the narrator about wind?

6. How does the narrator perplex Sergeant Pluck?

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

8. How does the narrator describe the police barracks?

9. Why does the narrator have a wooden leg?

10. What does de Selby say about movement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Examine the book's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1940s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the book if it was set in today's society?

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