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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. Why is Battersby thinking about money while he makes his morning tea?
(a) He is behind on his rent payments.
(b) He has just lost his job.
(c) His sister has asked him for a loan.
(d) He is almost out of tea and other basic supplies.

2. Why does Gallows say that he feels sorry for Harry?
(a) Because Harry is in love with Jean.
(b) Because Harry is Jamaican.
(c) Because Bat takes advantage of Harry.
(d) Because Harry is having trouble selling his music.

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?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Simile.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

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

5. In what area of London is the novel set?
(a) Hackney.
(b) Putney.
(c) Chelsea.
(d) Brixton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which man volunteers to keep an eye on everyone and fine them if they are caught wasting money on drinking, smoking, or dating?

2. What is the narrator's purpose in listing the English behaviors and beliefs that he lists on pages 3 and 4?

3. Which of his friends warns Bat to not get married?

4. When they are smoking in the park, where does Poor offer to take Harry later that evening?

5. What does the narrator say is "the biggest thing that ever happen to Gallows" (37)?

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