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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. Which of his friends warns Bat to not get married?
(a) Alfy.
(b) Fitz.
(c) Nobby.
(d) Poor.

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

3. What time does Battersby usually wake up to get ready for work?
(a) 5:00 a.m.
(b) 6:00 a.m.
(c) 7:00 a.m.
(d) 8:00 a.m.

4. As Poor approaches his friends in the market, what detail of his appearance does the narrator mention?
(a) He has a habit of looking at the ground as he walks.
(b) He has a dimple on his left cheek, but not his right.
(c) He walks with a barely noticeable limp.
(d) He always has his hands in his pockets.

5. What do Battersby and Harry go out to get when Battersby's friends gather at his apartment?
(a) Cigarettes and rum.
(b) Soda water and lime juice.
(c) Benne balls and sweet potato chips.
(d) A newspaper and a lottery ticket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gallows tell his friends that he might get a windfall of money from?

2. When the men indicate that they do not trust Battersby to hold the group's money, who volunteers to be the group's treasurer?

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

4. 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)?

5. Which of Bat's friends is the narrator describing when he says "As if, by himself, he can't exist, life too big for him to tackle" (36)?

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