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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 Battersby make himself for breakfast?
(a) Mashed sardines.
(b) Beans and rice.
(c) Toast and an egg.
(d) Curried vegetables.

2. What is the name of the song that Harry wrote himself?
(a) "Brit'n, Lovely Brit'n."
(b) "Stone-cold Dead in the Market."
(c) "Old Lady You Mashing My Toe."
(d) "The Weatherman Lying."

3. What does the expression "as if butter won't melt in his mouth" mean (8)?
(a) An insistence on high moral standards.
(b) A pretense of being innocent and sincere.
(c) An envious or jealous temperament.
(d) A cold and distant attitude.

4. When Nobby says that his motto is not to interfere in another man's business, what question is he responding to?
(a) Whether Gallows should report Harry for smoking.
(b) Whether they should ask Bat to drop Gallows from the plan to buy a house.
(c) Whether they should tell Harry that Jean is a sex worker.
(d) Whether they should tell Harry not to trust Bat.

5. On page 32, when Fitz's attitude toward Teena is changing, to what does he compare her way of walking?
(a) The "steam rising from a boiling kettle."
(b) A "snake weaving through long grass."
(c) The "wind rippling through the rice stalks."
(d) A "wave moving through deep water."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Harry plan to do to make "some big money" (15)?

4. Who comes to Battersby's apartment while he is trying to eat breakfast?

5. 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?

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