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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 MacCruiskeen run through his mangle?

2. What does Pluck compare the slow leak in his clothes to?

3. What does the narrator eventually arrive back to?

4. Who accosts the narrator at Mathers' house?

5. Who sent up another balloon to find the man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator see when he arrives back at his house?

2. What does the narrator see outside of Mathers' house?

3. How did MacCruiskeen drive two men mad?

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

5. Why does Pluck think all modes of transport are dangerous?

6. How does the narrator arrive back at the beginning of the story?

7. How does Divney react to seeing the narrator?

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

9. What does de Selby believe about the shape of the world?

10. How does the narrator get a reprieve?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Mathers' role in the novel? How would think the novel would change if Mathers did not reappear after his death?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the book's reception in three different countries including the country in which the book was written. How do their opinions about the books differ? Was the book more influential in one country than another? If so, why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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