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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. How does Jean react when Gallows tells her about the legal danger Poor has placed Harry in?
(a) She curses Poor.
(b) She offers to help find Harry.
(c) She mocks Harry's gullibility.
(d) She feigns disinterest.

2. On page 32, when Fitz's attitude toward Teena is changing, to what does he compare her way of walking?
(a) A "snake weaving through long grass."
(b) The "steam rising from a boiling kettle."
(c) The "wind rippling through the rice stalks."
(d) A "wave moving through deep water."

3. What is the main point of the remarks that Teena closes the meeting with?
(a) West Indian immigrants have to stick together in order to make sure they have the basics they need to live.
(b) This group of men need to get serious, because they are a disgrace to their people.
(c) The only way West Indians can fight discrimination is by assimilating.
(d) This group of men will never succeed until they marry and have women to keep them focused.

4. What nation has the protagonist emigrated from?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Trinidad.
(d) Guyana.

5. What qualifies Bat to run the excursion to Hamdon Court?
(a) He has a degree in history.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He has run many excursions in Trinidad.
(d) He has previously run an excursion to Brighton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bat take a piece of wallpaper off the wall of his apartment at the end of the novel?

2. What does Poor do for a living?

3. When, on page 83, the narrator says that "Trinidadians does thirst after fete as pants the hart for crystal streams," what is the Trinidadians' love for "fete" being compared to?

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

5. What is meant to be funny about Gallows's resolution to look for work, "whatever it is" (118)?

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