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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 word do the male characters often use to refer to a woman?
(a) Creature.
(b) Thing.
(c) Ride.
(d) Chick.

2. When they are smoking in the park, where does Poor offer to take Harry later that evening?
(a) To meet Fitz's wife.
(b) A Jamaican-owned club.
(c) Hyde Park.
(d) Piccadilly Circus.

3. 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 ethos.
(c) Appeal to authority.
(d) Appeal to pathos.

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

5. After Harry moves in, how does Bat's attitude about the apartment change?
(a) It starts to seem like not such a bad place.
(b) It starts to feel like a home where he could bring a wife.
(c) It seems even more run-down and embarrassing.
(d) It suddenly feels too small.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is it suggested was behind the assault on Eric Lopley?

2. Why does Gallows go to the market one Saturday afternoon?

3. On page 3, what does the narrator note that Battersby finds strange about living in England?

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

5. When Poor and Harry are smoking in the park, what question does Harry ask?

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