The Third Policeman Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Brian O'Nolan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 98 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Third Policeman Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Brian O'Nolan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 98 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who does the narrator believe Mathers to be?

2. What kind of miniature instrument does MacCruiskeen own?

3. What does the narrator use to attack Mathers?

4. What does Divney use to hit Mathers?

5. What does the narrator think the policemen can help him find?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the police barracks?

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

3. Why does Pluck think Gilaney is lecherous?

4. How does the stranger say he can help the narrator?

5. How does Divney change the atmosphere at the pub?

6. How does the narrator become obsessed with the philosopher, de Selby?

7. What does de Selby say about movement?

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

9. What does Pluck say about his atom theory?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the narrator's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did the narrator hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes the narrator's ideas about life?

3. How has the narrator's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of O'Brien's previous books and contrast it with the Third Policeman in terms of the following:

1. Style.

2. Structure.

3. Themes.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the book's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1940s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the book if it was set in today's society?

(see the answer keys)

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