View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is MacCruiskeen working on when Gilvaney enters the office?
(a) An invisible spear.
(b) An invisible mug.
(c) An invisible chest.
(d) An invisible telephone.

2. Whose house does the narrator stop to look at?
(a) Mathers'.
(b) Pluck's.
(c) Fox's.
(d) MacCruiskeen's.

3. Why does MacCruiskeen run light through his mangle?
(a) To lengthen the waves of energy.
(b) To increase its durability.
(c) To see what happens.
(d) To make sparks.

4. What will Pluck and his men wear to protect them from MacCruiskeen's bike?
(a) Blindfolds.
(b) Gasmasks.
(c) Theater masks.
(d) Earplugs.

5. Which of de Selby's books does the narrator talk about in this chapter?
(a) Yearbook.
(b) Codex.
(c) Gift of Time.
(d) TV Watching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose house does the narrator run past?

2. Who does Fox say is on the way to save the narrator?

3. What did de Selby undergo many lawsuits to obtain?

4. What kind of bicycle does the narrator say Gilhaney has?

5. How have the wooden-legged men disguised themselves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator dream about at the beginning of the chapter?

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

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

4. Describe the story Pluck tells about the man who went up in a balloon?

5. How does the Codex relate to the situation the narrator finds himself in?

6. Why is de Selby's Codex impossible to decipher?

7. What does Fox tell the narrator about the money box?

8. How did MacCruiskeen drive two men mad?

9. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 666 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample