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

2. What does the narrator say is "the biggest thing that ever happen to Gallows" (37)?
(a) His accidental trip to England.
(b) The loss of his five-pound note.
(c) The plan to buy a house.
(d) His run-in with the man he threatened to kill.

3. What does Syl tell Pat to stop doing when they see a police car approaching?
(a) Crying.
(b) Hiding behind Bat.
(c) Leaning against the wall.
(d) Shoving him.

4. On page 59, what does the narrator compare the summer to?
(a) The "hunting season."
(b) The "mating season."
(c) The "planting season."
(d) The "marrying season."

5. What is Gallows looking for when he comes into Battersby's apartment?
(a) A joint.
(b) A scrap of paper.
(c) A five-pound note.
(d) A button.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nobby tell his landlady he has named the dog?

2. Why does Gallows go to the market one Saturday afternoon?

3. When the group makes it to Westbourne Grove, whom does Bat tell Syl to ask about a hotel room?

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

5. Which quality of Syl's is Bat taking advantage of when he asks Syl for three guineas for the final hotel room?

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