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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Pages 51-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harry plan to do to make "some big money" (15)?
(a) Get a construction job.
(b) Write home to his parents.
(c) Rob a store.
(d) Sell tapes of his music.

2. Who are the two men that wait for Harry outside the phone booth?
(a) Jean's customers.
(b) Pimps.
(c) Priests.
(d) Police officers.

3. Why does Bat get angry at Gallows for trying to do during the brief blackout in Bat's apartment building?
(a) Steal money.
(b) Drink Bat's rum.
(c) Smoke Bat's cigarettes.
(d) Touch Matilda.

4. Why does Gallows go to the market one Saturday afternoon?
(a) To try to get a job.
(b) To spy on his friends.
(c) To sell his photographs.
(d) To meet women.

5. After Harry moves in, how does Bat's attitude about the apartment change?
(a) It suddenly feels too small.
(b) It starts to feel like a home where he could bring a wife.
(c) It seems even more run-down and embarrassing.
(d) It starts to seem like not such a bad place.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 32, when Fitz's attitude toward Teena is changing, to what does he compare her way of walking?

2. What word do the characters use that hints at the French colonial history of Trinidad?

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

4. Why does Gallows hope that he finds a wallet on the ground instead of finding loose money, as Alfy did?

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

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