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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 do Battersby and Harry go out to get when Battersby's friends gather at his apartment?
(a) A newspaper and a lottery ticket.
(b) Soda water and lime juice.
(c) Cigarettes and rum.
(d) Benne balls and sweet potato chips.

2. What does Bat plan to do about the money missing from the house-buying fund?
(a) Work extra shifts to make it back.
(b) Tell everyone he was robbed.
(c) Borrow the money from Jean.
(d) Try to make it back by gambling.

3. What kind of man does Jean say she would like to marry?
(a) A man like Bat.
(b) A man like Harry.
(c) A White man.
(d) A rich man.

4. Which of the friends seems most affected by the temptations of summer?
(a) Alfy.
(b) Gallows.
(c) Nobby.
(d) Syl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the market, when Alfy calls out to Poor that he is "dying for a cigarette," what reason does he give for not smoking one (39)?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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