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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Pluck assume is the narrator's father?
(a) The local butcher.
(b) A man with no name.
(c) Mathers.
(d) The local farmer.

2. What did the boy first consider when de Selby confused him with insolvable problems?
(a) Crime.
(b) Traveling.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Prostitution.

3. What do the doctors replace the narrator's leg with?
(a) A wooden leg.
(b) A prosthetic leg.
(c) A gorilla's leg.
(d) Another human's leg.

4. Who does the narrator want to publish a book about?
(a) His father.
(b) Heaney.
(c) O'Brien.
(d) De Selby.

5. What is so thin on the spear that it is invisible?
(a) Its feathers.
(b) Its handle.
(c) Its point.
(d) Its sheaf.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Pluck reluctant to put the narrator in a cell?

2. What kind of houses does de Selby think people should own?

3. What is the builder's leg made from?

4. When does Mathers say a person has the color of wind?

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

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