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

2. What does Alfy draw and ask Syl to identify when the friends are standing around talking by Marble Arch?
(a) A marijuana plant.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) A map of Port of Spain.
(d) Female genitalia.

3. Once the money is all counted out, what spurious claim does Bat make?
(a) Some of the money is money he was holding for Harry so that Harry can keep paying rent while he is in jail.
(b) The total was actually higher at one time, but someone broke into his apartment and stole some while he was at work.
(c) Some of the money is actually not a part of their communal savings, but is his personal savings.
(d) The real total is actually only half as much, but he has personally been matching the others' contributions pound-for-pound.

4. What does Teena refer to as "Chapter Two" of her meeting agenda (114)?
(a) Finding out what Bat has done to find them a house.
(b) Explaining to Gallows and Bat what they will need to do to be included in the plan.
(c) Settling the final list of who is and who is not included in their plan.
(d) Establishing that from now on, the women are in charge.

5. What does Teena constantly try to prevent the men from doing?
(a) Going to the race track.
(b) Drinking rum.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Smoking marijuana.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the week does the story open?

2. When the men indicate that they do not trust Battersby to hold the group's money, who volunteers to be the group's treasurer?

3. When Battersby is daydreaming in the novel's opening, what does he wish for, besides a woman?

4. When Pat first announces that she has no intention of sharing a hotel room with Syl, what does Bat say in response?

5. What can be inferred about Hampstead and Mayfair from Gallows's discussion with the estate agent?

(see the answer key)

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