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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. When Syl is in the first hotel asking for a room, what does Bat object to?
(a) He does not like the way that Syl is manipulating Pat.
(b) He does not like to see Pat standing alone outside the hotel.
(c) He thinks that Syl should have sent Pat into the hotel.
(d) He thinks that this hotel is unlikely to impress Pat.

2. When Gallows looks at the pavement of Bayswater Road, what does it make him wonder about London?
(a) He wonders why there are not more accidents on the city's terrible roads.
(b) He wonders why the city's rich people are so careless with trash.
(c) He wonders whether the city's streets are really paved with gold.
(d) He wonders how the city chooses pavement companies.

3. What objection does Battersby have to having Harry as a roommate?
(a) Harry is Jamaican.
(b) Harry has no steady income.
(c) Harry plays the banjo.
(d) Harry is interested in Battersby's sister.

4. After Harry moves in, how does Bat's attitude about the apartment change?
(a) It starts to seem like not such a bad place.
(b) It seems even more run-down and embarrassing.
(c) It starts to feel like a home where he could bring a wife.
(d) It suddenly feels too small.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed when the narrator says, "If I was writing a story I could make up all sorts of things" (14)?

2. How does Jean surprise Gallows when he runs into her near the park where she is looking for clients?

3. Why does Battersby's sister warn Matilda about him?

4. What technique is used when the narrator says that "Up in the atmosphere thunder roll with laughter"?

5. What does the narrator say the West Indian term "buttards" means (92)?

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