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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 Matilda asks Bat why he called the name "Jeanie" while they were having sex, what literary technique is employed (52)?
(a) Litotes.
(b) Paronomasia.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Paraprosdokian.

2. When Jean is talking with Harry about her job, what job does she compare it to?
(a) Receptionist.
(b) Psychologist.
(c) Professional athlete.
(d) Mechanic.

3. What do Harry and Jean agree that Bat and his friends all lack?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Opportunity.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Intelligence.

4. Who are the two men that wait for Harry outside the phone booth?
(a) Jean's customers.
(b) Pimps.
(c) Police officers.
(d) Priests.

5. On page 81, what description of his own demeanor does Bat give when he is persuading Syl to let him be the one to go into the final hotel to ask for a room?
(a) "Diplomatic."
(b) "Hypnotic."
(c) "Aristocratic."
(d) "Optimistic."

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used when the narrator says that "Up in the atmosphere thunder roll with laughter"?

2. What suggestion does Bat make after Syl accuses Bat of deliberately taking him to an area where the hotels will refuse him?

3. Where is Pat from?

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

5. Who arrives at the lunch area in a rowboat?

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