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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 is Nobby's landlady's name?
(a) Mrs. Quinn.
(b) Mrs. Tucker.
(c) Mrs. Feltin.
(d) Mrs. Little.

2. Which phrase that Bat allegedly reads from the housing listings on page 61 is a clue that he might be lying?
(a) "All part of the country."
(b) "Large selection."
(c) "Our mortgage facilities."
(d) "Highly-residential houses."

3. What is a char-a-banc?
(a) A trolley car that has been converted to run without tracks.
(b) A double-decker bus used for sightseeing.
(c) A vehicle with several rows of bench seats and no center aisle.
(d) A larger taxi-cab, usually shared between more than one set of passengers.

4. When Bat tells his friends that they are "stupid," and Alfy agrees that this is true "in the past tense," what is Alfy implying (60)?
(a) The friends might feel differently if Bat has actually made some progress.
(b) His other friends are being foolish to ask for their money back.
(c) The friends were unwise to trust Bat in the first place.
(d) His friends were angry, before, but they have calmed down.

5. Which of Bat's friends is the narrator describing when he says "As if, by himself, he can't exist, life too big for him to tackle" (36)?
(a) Alfy.
(b) Gallows.
(c) Syl.
(d) Nobby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Matilda hurry home from work to talk to Jean one night shortly after the excursion to Hamdon Court?

2. Which of the friends urges the others to give Bat a chance to explain what is happening with the housing plan?

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

4. When Bat tells Syl that a hotel room in the first area they go to is likely to cost two guineas or more, what does the narrator comment about Bat's motives?

5. What qualifies Bat to run the excursion to Hamdon Court?

(see the answer key)

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