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

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

3. What does Battersby make himself for breakfast?
(a) Mashed sardines.
(b) Curried vegetables.
(c) Beans and rice.
(d) Toast and an egg.

4. What question does Harry ask Battersby when they are on their way to the store?
(a) Whether he knows any calypso songs.
(b) Whether Jean has a boyfriend.
(c) In what part of London they should look for a house.
(d) How Alfonso and Poor got White girlfriends.

5. When Nobby says that his motto is not to interfere in another man's business, what question is he responding to?
(a) Whether they should tell Harry not to trust Bat.
(b) Whether they should ask Bat to drop Gallows from the plan to buy a house.
(c) Whether they should tell Harry that Jean is a sex worker.
(d) Whether Gallows should report Harry for smoking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Bat's friends hopes to live in the basement of the house they are planning to buy?

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

3. When Bat tells his friends that they are "stupid," and Alfy agrees that this is true "in the past tense," what is Alfy implying (60)?

4. What does Bat plan to do about the money missing from the house-buying fund?

5. Which phrase that Bat allegedly reads from the housing listings on page 61 is a clue that he might be lying?

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