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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Pages 76-100.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfy draw and ask Syl to identify when the friends are standing around talking by Marble Arch?
(a) A map of Port of Spain.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) A marijuana plant.
(d) Female genitalia.

2. Why is Nobby so anxious to make sure his landlady likes him?
(a) He had a hard time finding a place to live and does not want to have to look again.
(b) The landlady reminds him of his mother, back in Trinidad.
(c) He is several weeks behind in his rend payments.
(d) He is interested in her daughter.

3. What does the narrator compare the mens' appetites for women to?
(a) Hyenas.
(b) Bulls.
(c) Lions.
(d) Dogs.

4. Which of his friends warns Bat to not get married?
(a) Nobby.
(b) Alfy.
(c) Poor.
(d) Fitz.

5. On page 59, what does the narrator compare the summer to?
(a) The "marrying season."
(b) The "planting season."
(c) The "hunting season."
(d) The "mating season."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the group of friends deliberately leave Gallows behind?

2. What does the narrator say is "the biggest thing that ever happen to Gallows" (37)?

3. Why does Gallows suggest that Pat be the one to go in and ask for a hotel room?

4. Why does Gallows hope that he finds a wallet on the ground instead of finding loose money, as Alfy did?

5. When Bat is trying to seduce Matilda in his apartment after she suggests the excursion, besides flattering her, what else does he tell her?

(see the answer key)

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