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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does MacCruiskeen show the narrator after the spear?
(a) A sword.
(b) A miniature box.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A gold watch.

2. What is the name of the man who runs the narrator's farm?
(a) John Divney.
(b) Frank O'Hara.
(c) Jack Mathers.
(d) Joe de Selby.

3. What was Mather's job?
(a) A barman.
(b) A landlord.
(c) A shepherd.
(d) A cattleman.

4. What does Mathers say has different colors?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Wind.
(d) Birds.

5. Who does Pluck describe as lecherous?
(a) Mathers.
(b) Gilhaney.
(c) Fox.
(d) MacCruiskeen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is so thin on the spear that it is invisible?

2. Who does the narrator believe Mathers to be?

3. What is the name of the local man who enters the police barracks?

4. What is Mathers' birth color?

5. What did de Selby confuse the boy with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mathers say to the narrator?

2. How does the narrator describe the police barracks?

3. What does Pluck say about the figures he looks over with MacCruiskeen?

4. How do Divney and the narrator murder Mathers?

5. Why is MacCruiskeen's piano special?

6. What does Mathers tells the narrator about the policeman at the police barracks?

7. What does the narrator do as he walks down the road?

8. What does Mathers tell the narrator about his own wind color?

9. What does Pluck say humans do when they turn into bicycles?

10. How do people change into bicycles and bicycles change into people?

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