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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Pages 26-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fitz claim he did when a former girlfriend suggested they get married?
(a) He asked out her best friend.
(b) He broke up with her.
(c) He hit her in the head.
(d) He told her he was already married.

2. What does Harry plan to do to make "some big money" (15)?
(a) Get a construction job.
(b) Sell tapes of his music.
(c) Rob a store.
(d) Write home to his parents.

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

4. 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 that Jean is a sex worker.
(b) Whether they should tell Harry not to trust Bat.
(c) Whether they should ask Bat to drop Gallows from the plan to buy a house.
(d) Whether Gallows should report Harry for smoking.

5. What do Harry and Battersby's sister have a playful argument about when they meet?
(a) England's monarchy.
(b) Aloo pie.
(c) Big Ben.
(d) Calypso music.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Matilda asks Jean about marrying Harry, what is Jean's first objection to Harry?

2. How did Fitz meet Teena?

3. What does Battersby make himself for breakfast?

4. What is de Nobriga's nickname?

5. 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)?

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