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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 is the narrator's purpose in listing the English behaviors and beliefs that he lists on pages 3 and 4?
(a) He means to contrast these with West Indian behaviors and beliefs.
(b) He wants readers to question their own assumptions about science.
(c) He is making fun of religious and spiritual ways of interpreting the world.
(d) He intends to show that the English are superstitious people.

2. What obstacle does Gallows encounter at the first estate agent office he goes into?
(a) Prejudice against his criminal background.
(b) The need to prove his income.
(c) An estate agent who refuses to talk to him.
(d) Owners who do not want to sell to Blacks.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When they are smoking in the park, where does Poor offer to take Harry later that evening?

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

3. After Harry moves in, how does Bat's attitude about the apartment change?

4. In what area of London is the novel set?

5. What does Poor do for a living?

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