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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. Where does Gallows tell his friends that he might get a windfall of money from?
(a) The death of a relative.
(b) The sale of his music.
(c) The sale of his photographs.
(d) Reparations for his imprisonment.

2. What technique is used when the narrator says that "Up in the atmosphere thunder roll with laughter"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Metonymy.

3. Which of Bat's friends is the narrator describing when he says "As if, by himself, he can't exist, life too big for him to tackle" (36)?
(a) Syl.
(b) Alfy.
(c) Nobby.
(d) Gallows.

4. 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 intends to show that the English are superstitious people.
(d) He is making fun of religious and spiritual ways of interpreting the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the fuse in Bat's apartment building to blow?

2. In the page 1 sentence "Pound notes and fivers start to fall all about in the room, until is as if he is swimming in it, and the water-mark rising higher and higher," what technique is being used?

3. What is Syl's solution to Nobby's unwilling dog ownership?

4. When Poor realizes that Harry is feeling down because of Jean, what does Poor suggest?

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

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