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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Pages 101-125.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Poor offer his friends as a way to get back in their good graces?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Rum.
(d) Money.

3. Of the friends who have agreed to the housing plan, which three does the narrator say are at least somewhat serious about getting a house?
(a) Harry, Bat, and Syl.
(b) Harry, Fitz, and Bat.
(c) Bat, Gallows, and Harry.
(d) Gallows, Harry, and Ftiz.

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

5. Why does Gallows offer to count the money they have collected?
(a) He is trying to show that he contributes something to the housing plan.
(b) He does not trust Bat.
(c) He is secretly in love with Teena.
(d) He intends to take one of the five-pound notes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Poor do for a living?

2. When Syl is in the first hotel asking for a room, what does Bat object to?

3. Who comes to Battersby's apartment while he is trying to eat breakfast?

4. Who arrives at the lunch area in a rowboat?

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

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