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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. 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) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. As Poor approaches his friends in the market, what detail of his appearance does the narrator mention?
(a) He walks with a barely noticeable limp.
(b) He has a dimple on his left cheek, but not his right.
(c) He always has his hands in his pockets.
(d) He has a habit of looking at the ground as he walks.

3. What nation has the protagonist emigrated from?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Guyana.

4. What word do the male characters often use to refer to a woman?
(a) Ride.
(b) Chick.
(c) Thing.
(d) Creature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gallows go to the market one Saturday afternoon?

2. When Poor and Harry are smoking in the park, what question does Harry ask?

3. What does Teena constantly try to prevent the men from doing?

4. On what day of the week does the story open?

5. On page 3, what does the narrator note that Battersby finds strange about living in England?

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