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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. When Gallows hears about the Notting Hill house, what is the first thing he wants to know?
(a) What its address is.
(b) How long they have to come up with a deposit.
(c) Whether it has a basement.
(d) Whether the owners will sell to Blacks.

2. When, after lunch, the women leave the group for another tour, why does Poor tag along after them?
(a) He is hoping to seduce Maisie.
(b) He wants Teena to tell the men to stop ignoring him.
(c) He wants to borrow money from Jean.
(d) He wants to tell Matilda some gossip about Bat.

3. In Westbourne Grove, when Pat refuses to let Syl touch her, what does Syl threaten to do?
(a) Take her back to Bat's apartment.
(b) Hit her.
(c) Abandon her.
(d) Make her pay for her own hotel.

4. When Jean tells Matilda about her plans for the future, what suggestion does she make that offends Matilda?
(a) She suggests that Matilda consider returning to Trinidad.
(b) She suggests that Bat has no intention of getting a house.
(c) She suggests that Matilda move in with Bat.
(d) She suggests that Matilda take up sex work.

5. What does the narrator accuse the men of because of their response to Teena's confrontation with Bat?
(a) Being aggressive.
(b) Being followers.
(c) Being gullible.
(d) Being sexist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What technique is employed when the narrator says, "If I was writing a story I could make up all sorts of things" (14)?

3. What does Syl tell Pat to stop doing when they see a police car approaching?

4. What is Gallows looking for when he comes into Battersby's apartment?

5. When Bat shoos the men out of his apartment so that he and Syl can be alone with Pat, what does Gallows stay behind for?

(see the answer key)

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