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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 can be inferred about Hampstead and Mayfair from Gallows's discussion with the estate agent?
(a) These are wealthy areas.
(b) These areas are less racially prejudiced.
(c) Both are a long way from central London.
(d) Both have a large number of vacant properties.

2. What is the name of the song that Harry wrote himself?
(a) "Old Lady You Mashing My Toe."
(b) "The Weatherman Lying."
(c) "Brit'n, Lovely Brit'n."
(d) "Stone-cold Dead in the Market."

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

4. What is Gallows looking for when he comes into Battersby's apartment?
(a) A scrap of paper.
(b) A button.
(c) A joint.
(d) A five-pound note.

5. What technique is employed when the narrator says, "If I was writing a story I could make up all sorts of things" (14)?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Irony.
(d) Understatement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bat plan to do about the money missing from the house-buying fund?

2. Why does Battersby's sister warn Matilda about him?

3. 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)?

4. Which of Bat's friends hopes to live in the basement of the house they are planning to buy?

5. What does Harry plan to do to make "some big money" (15)?

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