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

2. What does the narrator compare Pat to when she goes into the final hotel with Bat?
(a) A lamb.
(b) A pawn.
(c) A child.
(d) A lemming.

3. What does Harry plan to do to make "some big money" (15)?
(a) Write home to his parents.
(b) Sell tapes of his music.
(c) Rob a store.
(d) Get a construction job.

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

5. 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) Irony.
(d) Foreshadowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bat plan to do about the money missing from the house-buying fund?

2. Which phrase that Bat allegedly reads from the housing listings on page 61 is a clue that he might be lying?

3. What does Bat say is wrong with the house that he supposedly went to see in Cricklewood?

4. What condition does Battersby put on his agreement to take Harry as a roommate?

5. Which of Bat's friends hopes to live in the basement of the house they are planning to buy?

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