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

2. What technique is used when the narrator says that "Up in the atmosphere thunder roll with laughter"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Synechdoche.

3. Why does Bat get angry at Gallows for trying to do during the brief blackout in Bat's apartment building?
(a) Steal money.
(b) Smoke Bat's cigarettes.
(c) Drink Bat's rum.
(d) Touch Matilda.

4. Each time the men go by Fitz and Teena's house, what do they find Fitz doing?
(a) Praying.
(b) Reading.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Sleeping.

5. What word does the narrator use to refer to the structure of his storytelling?
(a) Ballad.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Recursive.
(d) Episodic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Harry and Battersby's sister have a playful argument about when they meet?

2. When Matilda asks Jean about marrying Harry, what is Jean's first objection to Harry?

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

4. 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?

5. What is the name of the song that Harry wrote himself?

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