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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does de Selby claim to be able to use to see back in time?
(a) Tea leaves.
(b) Bicycles.
(c) Mirrors.
(d) Coke bottles.

2. What does de Selby think is the only way you can travel on the long dimension of the earth?
(a) If you get married.
(b) If you are dead.
(c) If you turn to God.
(d) If you are in love.

3. What of the following does de Selby claim he did not use to make a journey?
(a) Cogs.
(b) Clocks.
(c) Photos.
(d) Barometers.

4. What starts to go missing from the customers when Divney comes back with his new drink?
(a) Cigars and snuff boxes.
(b) Shoes and hats.
(c) Credit cards and gold chains.
(d) Money and watches.

5. What color is the money box?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Sliver.
(d) White.

6. What happens when one's gowns turn to black?
(a) He becomes a hermit.
(b) He dies.
(c) He goes on a pilgrimage.
(d) He falls ill.

7. Why does the narrator allow Divney to run the farm?
(a) So he can relax.
(b) So he can attend parties.
(c) So he can run his own business.
(d) So he can write his book.

8. What does Mathers say it means if a person has a light color?
(a) He is virile.
(b) He will live longer.
(c) He will become a success.
(d) He will fail.

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

10. What kind of houses does de Selby think people should own?
(a) Roofless houses.
(b) Detached houses.
(c) Floating houses.
(d) Mobile houses.

11. Why does Divney refuse to tell the narrator where he has hidden the money?
(a) The narrator needs to finish his job first.
(b) Divney cannot trust anyone.
(c) It is not yet safe to spend it.
(d) It needs time to develop interest.

12. What did the narrator's mother run?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A cafe.
(c) A pub.
(d) A restaurant.

13. What kind of drink does Divney go in search of?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Gin.
(c) Beer.
(d) Wine.

14. What word does Mathers use to answer each of the narrator's questions?
(a) Flump.
(b) Ha.
(c) Thief.
(d) No.

15. Where does the narrator lie down to sleep?
(a) A canal boat.
(b) A ditch.
(c) A riverbank.
(d) A park.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mathers say is in control of birth colors?

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

3. What does Pluck presume the narrator is inquiring about?

4. What did MacCruiskeen decide to put in the box?

5. Who does Pluck say Gilhaney tricked into riding his bicycle?

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