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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 was the narrator's father's job?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A cook.
(d) A landlord.

2. Who does the narrator believe Mathers to be?
(a) Mathers' guardian angel.
(b) Mathers' son.
(c) Mathers' soul.
(d) Mathers' twin.

3. Who is the only person who can hear the piano's music?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Mathers.
(c) MacCruiskeen.
(d) Pluck.

4. Who does the stranger introduce himself as?
(a) Roger Tomkins.
(b) Dale Lohan.
(c) Martin Finnucane.
(d) Jack Mathers.

5. What do bicycles lean against in people's houses?
(a) Sofas.
(b) Beds.
(c) Kitchen counters.
(d) Deck chairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pluck describe as lecherous?

2. Who does the stranger threaten to murder?

3. What did de Selby confuse the boy with?

4. What does de Selby claim life is a series of?

5. What does the narrator make up for himself as he walks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Pluck think Gilaney is lecherous?

2. What does Mathers tell the narrator about wind?

3. What does de Selby say about mirrors?

4. How does the narrator perplex Sergeant Pluck?

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

6. What does Pluck say bicycles do during bad weather?

7. What does Pluck assume about the narrator because he has no name?

8. Where does Pluck find the bicycle and all its parts?

9. How does the narrator describe the police barracks?

10. How do Divney and the narrator murder Mathers?

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