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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 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 logos.
(b) Appeal to authority.
(c) Appeal to pathos.
(d) Appeal to ethos.

2. What technique is used when the narrator says that "Up in the atmosphere thunder roll with laughter"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Personification.

3. Where does Gallows tell his friends that he might get a windfall of money from?
(a) The sale of his photographs.
(b) The sale of his music.
(c) Reparations for his imprisonment.
(d) The death of a relative.

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

5. What objection does Battersby have to having Harry as a roommate?
(a) Harry is interested in Battersby's sister.
(b) Harry plays the banjo.
(c) Harry has no steady income.
(d) Harry is Jamaican.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Harry and Battersby's sister have a playful argument about when they meet?

2. What is Battersby's sister irritated about when she comes downstairs to where Battersby's friends have gathered?

3. 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?

4. What does the expression "as if butter won't melt in his mouth" mean (8)?

5. What can be inferred about Hampstead and Mayfair from Gallows's discussion with the estate agent?

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