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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 word does Poor use to refer to a marijuana cigarette?
(a) Bone.
(b) Bunt.
(c) Charger
(d) Spliff.

2. Which quality of Syl's is Bat taking advantage of when he asks Syl for three guineas for the final hotel room?
(a) His chivalry.
(b) His greed.
(c) His gullibility.
(d) His generosity.

3. What is a char-a-banc?
(a) A vehicle with several rows of bench seats and no center aisle.
(b) A larger taxi-cab, usually shared between more than one set of passengers.
(c) A double-decker bus used for sightseeing.
(d) A trolley car that has been converted to run without tracks.

4. What reason does Nobby give for thinking that Harry will not be able to make a success of his singing career?
(a) He is not talented.
(b) He is easy to manipulate.
(c) He sings the wrong kind of music.
(d) He is Black.

5. Why does Bat get angry at Gallows for trying to do during the brief blackout in Bat's apartment building?
(a) Touch Matilda.
(b) Smoke Bat's cigarettes.
(c) Drink Bat's rum.
(d) Steal money.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Westbourne Grove, when Pat refuses to let Syl touch her, what does Syl threaten to do?

2. What is Nobby's landlady's name?

3. When Nobby says that his motto is not to interfere in another man's business, what question is he responding to?

4. 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?

5. What does the narrator say makes it seem "as if a hoodoo on old Syl, or else the gods favouring Battersby" (79)?

(see the answer key)

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