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

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

3. Which man volunteers to keep an eye on everyone and fine them if they are caught wasting money on drinking, smoking, or dating?
(a) Syl.
(b) Alfonso.
(c) de Nobriga.
(d) Gallows.

4. What does Bat plan to do about the money missing from the house-buying fund?
(a) Work extra shifts to make it back.
(b) Borrow the money from Jean.
(c) Tell everyone he was robbed.
(d) Try to make it back by gambling.

5. As her conversation with Matilda continues, what second objection to Harry does Jean raise?
(a) He is too religious.
(b) He is too innocent.
(c) He is too generous.
(d) He is too serious.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry and Jean go out into the hallway together, he decides to "make hay while the match was shining" (26). What does the expression "make hay" mean?

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

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

4. Which of Bat's friends hopes to live in the basement of the house they are planning to buy?

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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