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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. What does Gallows toss to Syl as he leaves him outside the final hotel?
(a) A roll of film.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A bus token.
(d) A piece of wood.

2. On page 32, when Fitz's attitude toward Teena is changing, to what does he compare her way of walking?
(a) The "wind rippling through the rice stalks."
(b) A "snake weaving through long grass."
(c) The "steam rising from a boiling kettle."
(d) A "wave moving through deep water."

3. According to the narrator, why is the idea of the excursion so popular in Brixton?
(a) People are eager to start the summer with a party.
(b) There is little else to do in Brixton.
(c) The summer heat is more bearable in the countryside.
(d) Hamdon Court is a famous site in Britain.

4. What technique is employed when the narrator says, "If I was writing a story I could make up all sorts of things" (14)?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Irony.

5. What word does Battersby use to describe his sister?
(a) Bulldog.
(b) Shark.
(c) Fire.
(d) Storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jean react when Gallows tells her about the legal danger Poor has placed Harry in?

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

3. When Battersby is daydreaming in the novel's opening, what kind of woman does he wish for?

4. When Harry runs into Jean near the park on the night he is wandering around high, what does he finally realize?

5. What word does Poor use to refer to a marijuana cigarette?

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