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

2. From the narrator's explanation of how dogs are treated in the West Indies, what is it reasonable to conclude?
(a) He is embarrassed about how West Indians treat animals.
(b) He wishes that he had a dog of his own.
(c) He thinks that West Indians treat dogs more like family members than the English do.
(d) He thinks that the English spoil their dogs.

3. On what day of the week does the story open?
(a) Monday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Friday.

4. What does Nobby tell his landlady he has named the dog?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Flossie.
(c) Tiger.
(d) Pumpkin.

5. What does Teena constantly try to prevent the men from doing?
(a) Smoking marijuana.
(b) Drinking rum.
(c) Going to the race track.
(d) Playing cards.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jean is talking with Harry about her job, what job does she compare it to?

2. Why is Battersby thinking about money while he makes his morning tea?

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

4. When Matilda asks Bat why he called the name "Jeanie" while they were having sex, what literary technique is employed (52)?

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

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