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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 kind of bicycle does the narrator say Gilhaney has?

2. What does the light do when MacCruiskeen runs it through the mangle?

3. Where does the road past the police station lead to?

4. What does the builder drop on his foot?

5. Why does MacCruiskeen run light through his mangle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator see when he arrives back at his house?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where does Pluck take the narrator in this chapter?

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

10. How have the one legged men disguised themselves?

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

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the book and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 3

What problems does the narrator's generation face? How are the problems for the narrator's generation different from the problems his father's generation face? Identify and discuss a significant problem facing your generation.

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