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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 has MacCruiskeen left at the police barracks?

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

3. Why does the narrator think they cannot hang him?

4. What is de Selby's idea of heaven bound up with?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

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

6. How did MacCruiskeen drive two men mad?

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

8. Why does the narrator think the police cannot hang him?

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

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

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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