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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 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.

2. What word do the characters use that hints at the French colonial history of Trinidad?
(a) Oui.
(b) Ouf.
(c) Mince.
(d) Merci.

3. When Matilda asks Jean about marrying Harry, what is Jean's first objection to Harry?
(a) His looks.
(b) His poverty.
(c) His intellect.
(d) His race.

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) Understatement.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Irony.
(d) Foreshadowing.

5. What does Alfy draw and ask Syl to identify when the friends are standing around talking by Marble Arch?
(a) The alphabet.
(b) A map of Port of Spain.
(c) A marijuana plant.
(d) Female genitalia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfy do during the bus trip to Hamdon Court?

2. After Nobby gets rid of his dog, what does he tell his landlady happened to it?

3. What word does the narrator use to refer to the structure of his storytelling?

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

5. What does Battersby make himself for breakfast?

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