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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Pages 1-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Battersby's sister irritated about when she comes downstairs to where Battersby's friends have gathered?
(a) They are all hitting on Matilda.
(b) They did not include her in their plans.
(c) They are smoking marijuana.
(d) They have made a mess.

2. What do Battersby and Harry go out to get when Battersby's friends gather at his apartment?
(a) A newspaper and a lottery ticket.
(b) Cigarettes and rum.
(c) Benne balls and sweet potato chips.
(d) Soda water and lime juice.

3. Why is Battersby thinking about money while he makes his morning tea?
(a) He has just lost his job.
(b) He is behind on his rent payments.
(c) His sister has asked him for a loan.
(d) He is almost out of tea and other basic supplies.

4. What question does Harry ask Battersby when they are on their way to the store?
(a) Whether he knows any calypso songs.
(b) Whether Jean has a boyfriend.
(c) How Alfonso and Poor got White girlfriends.
(d) In what part of London they should look for a house.

5. What does Battersby make himself for breakfast?
(a) Beans and rice.
(b) Curried vegetables.
(c) Toast and an egg.
(d) Mashed sardines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the page 1 sentence "Pound notes and fivers start to fall all about in the room, until is as if he is swimming in it, and the water-mark rising higher and higher," what technique is being used?

3. What is the narrator's purpose in listing the English behaviors and beliefs that he lists on pages 3 and 4?

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

5. What kind of appeal is the narrator making when he says "being as I want to tell the truth, I have to say that that is how it happen" (14)?

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