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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. How does Jean react when Gallows tells her about the legal danger Poor has placed Harry in?
(a) She offers to help find Harry.
(b) She mocks Harry's gullibility.
(c) She feigns disinterest.
(d) She curses Poor.

2. When they are smoking in the park, where does Poor offer to take Harry later that evening?
(a) To meet Fitz's wife.
(b) Piccadilly Circus.
(c) A Jamaican-owned club.
(d) Hyde Park.

3. What does Nobby's landlady tell him he must feed his dog?
(a) Stew meat.
(b) Steak.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Organ meats.

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

5. What kind of appeal is the narrator making when he says "being as I want to tell the truth, I have to say that that is how it happen" (14)?
(a) Appeal to pathos.
(b) Appeal to authority.
(c) Appeal to logos.
(d) Appeal to ethos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is "the biggest thing that ever happen to Gallows" (37)?

2. When the group of friends gather one summer night at Bat's apartment, why is Harry absent?

3. When Matilda asks Jean about marrying Harry, what is Jean's first objection to Harry?

4. What condition does Battersby put on his agreement to take Harry as a roommate?

5. What word do the male characters often use to refer to a woman?

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