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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 builder drop on his foot?

2. What did the neighbors form to force the man to tell them where he had been?

3. Who does Pluck claim is the murderer?

4. What is attempting to escape from the holding cell?

5. What man other than Fox was driven mad by MacCruiskeen's cards?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did de Selby once confuse a boy about the boy's problems?

2. How does the narrator get a reprieve?

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

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

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

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

7. How have the one legged men disguised themselves?

8. Why do the policeman consent to show the narrator what their figures mean?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Replace the book's setting with one of the following settings:

1. Mexico.

2. USA.

3. Britain.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the narrator's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did the narrator hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes the narrator's ideas about life?

3. How has the narrator's character changed by the end of the book?

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