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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 suggestion does Bat make after Syl accuses Bat of deliberately taking him to an area where the hotels will refuse him?
(a) They can go to an all-night restaurant in Piccadilly Circus and then Pat can catch a morning train to work.
(b) They can go to Tottenham Court Road and ask his three friends from Barbados to let Pat and Syl stay there.
(c) They can go to Hyde Park and ask his sister which hotels will rent rooms to Black patrons.
(d) They can go back to the apartment, and Bat will stay upstairs with his sister and Matilda while Pat and Syl sleep downstairs.

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

3. When Bat shoos the men out of his apartment so that he and Syl can be alone with Pat, what does Gallows stay behind for?
(a) To drink sherry.
(b) To talk about the housing plan.
(c) To talk about Harry Banjo.
(d) To smoke marijuana.

4. Why does Gallows go to the market one Saturday afternoon?
(a) To sell his photographs.
(b) To meet women.
(c) To spy on his friends.
(d) To try to get a job.

5. When Poor and Harry are smoking in the park, what question does Harry ask?
(a) He asks how much rent Bat pays for their apartment.
(b) He asks whether Poor will reconsider the housing scheme.
(c) He asks whether Poor thinks he can make it as a musician.
(d) He asks what Jean does for a living.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Fitz meet Teena?

2. What is a char-a-banc?

3. What reason does Nobby give for thinking that Harry will not be able to make a success of his singing career?

4. In the market, when Alfy calls out to Poor that he is "dying for a cigarette," what reason does he give for not smoking one (39)?

5. Why does Bat get angry at Gallows for trying to do during the brief blackout in Bat's apartment building?

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