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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 the narrator work up the courage to ask about?

2. Whose house does the narrator run past?

3. Where does Divney say he hid the bomb?

4. What does Fox say was in the money box?

5. What does the narrator do when Divney says he killed him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

2. Why is de Selby's Codex impossible to decipher?

3. Why does the narrator fall in love with the bicycle in this chapter?

4. Why does Pluck think all modes of transport are dangerous?

5. How does the narrator arrive back at the beginning of the story?

6. How does the narrator get the builder to help him?

7. What does the narrator dream about at the beginning of the chapter?

8. What does the narrator see outside of Mathers' house?

9. How does the narrator get a reprieve?

10. How does McCruiskeen plan to defeat the one-legged men?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the book's reception in three different countries including the country in which the book was written. How do their opinions about the books differ? Was the book more influential in one country than another? If so, why?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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