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

2. What is de Nobriga's nickname?
(a) Nobby.
(b) Bridge.
(c) Iggy.
(d) Deno.

3. 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?
(a) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Hyperbole.

4. 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)?
(a) Appeal to pathos.
(b) Appeal to authority.
(c) Appeal to logos.
(d) Appeal to ethos.

5. What condition does Battersby put on his agreement to take Harry as a roommate?
(a) He does not want Harry to bring his banjo.
(b) He wants Harry to agree to do all the cooking and cleaning.
(c) He wants Harry to agree not to speak to his sister.
(d) He does not want Harry to be told what the rent is.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What objection does Battersby have to having Harry as a roommate?

3. What do Battersby and Harry go out to get when Battersby's friends gather at his apartment?

4. Why is Battersby thinking about money while he makes his morning tea?

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

(see the answer key)

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