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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does de Selby believe is a hallucination?

2. What is the name of the second policeman who enters the office?

3. What country does Pluck say the rest of the narrator's family has gone to?

4. What does Pluck say bicycles are made from?

5. Who does the stranger introduce himself as?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the spear MacCruiskeen shows him?

2. Why does the narrator think it is not a good idea to say no to everything?

3. How does the narrator perplex Sergeant Pluck?

4. How does the narrator describe the police barracks?

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

6. What does de Selby say about mirrors?

7. What does Mathers say to the narrator?

8. What is de Selby's opinion on houses?

9. What does Pluck say about his atom theory?

10. Why does Divney suggest they murder Mathers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the construction of O'Brien's argument.

1. How does he introduce his ideas?

2. How does he construct his ideas to come to logical conclusion?

3. What weaknesses and strengths can you identify in O'Brien's argument?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the book and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

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