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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 Bat plan to do about the money missing from the house-buying fund?
(a) Work extra shifts to make it back.
(b) Try to make it back by gambling.
(c) Borrow the money from Jean.
(d) Tell everyone he was robbed.

2. Based on the amount of detail given in the passage that describes Charlie Victor's feelings about West Indian culture, what does he seem to miss the most?
(a) The gossip.
(b) The music.
(c) The drinking.
(d) The food.

3. What does Poor do for a living?
(a) He works in a cannery.
(b) He is a pickpocket.
(c) He sells drugs.
(d) He is a sales clerk.

4. What do Battersby and Harry go out to get when Battersby's friends gather at his apartment?
(a) Cigarettes and rum.
(b) A newspaper and a lottery ticket.
(c) Soda water and lime juice.
(d) Benne balls and sweet potato chips.

5. Why does Harry go into the phone booth?
(a) To call his agent.
(b) To call Poor.
(c) To call a hotel.
(d) To call the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator says that Trinidadians love a "fete," what is he saying they love?

2. What kind of appeal is the narrator making when he says "being as I want to tell the truth, I have to say that that is how it happen" (14)?

3. What time does Battersby usually wake up to get ready for work?

4. How did Fitz meet Teena?

5. What word do the characters use that hints at the French colonial history of Trinidad?

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