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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Pages 26-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can be inferred about Hampstead and Mayfair from Gallows's discussion with the estate agent?
(a) These are wealthy areas.
(b) These areas are less racially prejudiced.
(c) Both are a long way from central London.
(d) Both have a large number of vacant properties.

2. 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) Nobby.
(b) Gallows.
(c) Alfy.
(d) Syl.

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

4. Why does Gallows go to the market one Saturday afternoon?
(a) To sell his photographs.
(b) To try to get a job.
(c) To meet women.
(d) To spy on his friends.

5. What does Fitz claim he did when a former girlfriend suggested they get married?
(a) He asked out her best friend.
(b) He broke up with her.
(c) He hit her in the head.
(d) He told her he was already married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Battersby's sister?

2. What do Harry and Jean agree that Bat and his friends all lack?

3. What word do the male characters often use to refer to a woman?

4. What nation has the protagonist emigrated from?

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

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