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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Pages 51-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time does Battersby usually wake up to get ready for work?
(a) 5:00 a.m.
(b) 7:00 a.m.
(c) 6:00 a.m.
(d) 8:00 a.m.

2. What does Nobby tell his landlady he has named the dog?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Flossie.
(c) Pumpkin.
(d) Tiger.

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

4. When Gallows hears about the Notting Hill house, what is the first thing he wants to know?
(a) How long they have to come up with a deposit.
(b) Whether the owners will sell to Blacks.
(c) What its address is.
(d) Whether it has a basement.

5. Who is the first of the friends to ask Bat for his money back?
(a) Nobby.
(b) Fitz.
(c) Syl.
(d) Alfy.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the narrator's explanation of how dogs are treated in the West Indies, what is it reasonable to conclude?

2. When Battersby is daydreaming in the novel's opening, what kind of woman does he wish for?

3. After Harry moves in, how does Bat's attitude about the apartment change?

4. As her conversation with Matilda continues, what second objection to Harry does Jean raise?

5. In the page 1 sentence "Pound notes and fivers start to fall all about in the room, until is as if he is swimming in it, and the water-mark rising higher and higher," what technique is being used?

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