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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Pages 76-100.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the group of friends deliberately leave Gallows behind?
(a) The restrooms.
(b) The maze.
(c) The palace.
(d) The bus.

2. What does Battersby's sister do for a living?
(a) She is a pickpocket.
(b) She begs for money in the park.
(c) She is a sex worker.
(d) She sings and plays music in the subway.

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?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

4. When Gallows hears about the Notting Hill house, what is the first thing he wants to know?
(a) Whether it has a basement.
(b) What its address is.
(c) Whether the owners will sell to Blacks.
(d) How long they have to come up with a deposit.

5. When Bat tells his friends that they are "stupid," and Alfy agrees that this is true "in the past tense," what is Alfy implying (60)?
(a) His friends were angry, before, but they have calmed down.
(b) The friends might feel differently if Bat has actually made some progress.
(c) The friends were unwise to trust Bat in the first place.
(d) His other friends are being foolish to ask for their money back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is de Nobriga's nickname?

2. When Harry is wandering through Piccadilly Circus, still high from smoking with Poor, what is he thinking about?

3. In what area of London is the novel set?

4. What does Battersby mean when he says "You is one of we" (9)?

5. What question does Harry ask Battersby when they are on their way to the store?

(see the answer key)

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