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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 different about Meers?

2. What does MacCruiskeen think he can control if he can understand the screams?

3. Who is Divney standing next to?

4. What did de Selby undergo many lawsuits to obtain?

5. What does MacCruiskeen say is happening at eternity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does de Selby believe about the shape of the world?

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

3. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

4. How does the narrator describe the map Pluck shows him?

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

6. How does the Codex relate to the situation the narrator finds himself in?

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

8. Describe the story Pluck tells about the man who went up in a balloon?

9. What does Fox tell the narrator about the money box?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Pluck's obsession with bicycles say about his character? How does Pluck obsession with bicycles relate to the novel's themes?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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