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

2. Who is the author of The Housing Lark?
(a) Derek Walcott.
(b) Lawrence Scott.
(c) Sam Selvon.
(d) Junot Diaz.

3. What is Syl's solution to Nobby's unwilling dog ownership?
(a) He leaves the dog on the train to Greenwich.
(b) He gives the dog to Fitz for his wife, Teena.
(c) He takes the dog and dumps it in Croyden.
(d) He sells the dog to one of his colleagues.

4. What is the narrator's purpose in listing the English behaviors and beliefs that he lists on pages 3 and 4?
(a) He means to contrast these with West Indian behaviors and beliefs.
(b) He intends to show that the English are superstitious people.
(c) He is making fun of religious and spiritual ways of interpreting the world.
(d) He wants readers to question their own assumptions about science.

5. When Battersby is daydreaming in the novel's opening, what kind of woman does he wish for?
(a) Generous.
(b) Nice.
(c) Smart.
(d) Beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jean surprise Gallows when he runs into her near the park where she is looking for clients?

2. What is the name of Battersby's sister?

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

4. After Nobby gets rid of his dog, what does he tell his landlady happened to it?

5. What does Nobby's landlady tell him he must feed his dog?

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