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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. Which of Bat's friends hopes to live in the basement of the house they are planning to buy?
(a) Alfy.
(b) Gallows.
(c) Syl.
(d) Nobby.

2. What does the expression "as if butter won't melt in his mouth" mean (8)?
(a) A pretense of being innocent and sincere.
(b) An envious or jealous temperament.
(c) A cold and distant attitude.
(d) An insistence on high moral standards.

3. From the narrator's explanation of how dogs are treated in the West Indies, what is it reasonable to conclude?
(a) He thinks that West Indians treat dogs more like family members than the English do.
(b) He wishes that he had a dog of his own.
(c) He is embarrassed about how West Indians treat animals.
(d) He thinks that the English spoil their dogs.

4. What kind of appeal is the narrator making when he says "being as I want to tell the truth, I have to say that that is how it happen" (14)?
(a) Appeal to pathos.
(b) Appeal to authority.
(c) Appeal to logos.
(d) Appeal to ethos.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Harry ask Battersby when they are on their way to the store?

2. What nation has the protagonist emigrated from?

3. 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)?

4. On what day of the week does the story open?

5. Which man volunteers to keep an eye on everyone and fine them if they are caught wasting money on drinking, smoking, or dating?

(see the answer key)

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