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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Pages 101-125.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Appeal to logos.
(b) Appeal to authority.
(c) Appeal to ethos.
(d) Appeal to pathos.

2. What do Bat and Teena have a struggle over at the beginning of the meeting?
(a) A five-pound note.
(b) A list of available houses.
(c) Alfy's camera.
(d) A bottle of rum.

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

4. What is Battersby's sister irritated about when she comes downstairs to where Battersby's friends have gathered?
(a) They are all hitting on Matilda.
(b) They have made a mess.
(c) They did not include her in their plans.
(d) They are smoking marijuana.

5. What does the narrator say the West Indian term "buttards" means (92)?
(a) The habit of repeatedly interrupting or talking over others.
(b) The scrapings of food left at the bottom of the pot.
(c) A person who is always the target of a group's humor.
(d) A payment to be allowed to enter a game.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is it suggested was behind the assault on Eric Lopley?

2. When Poor and Harry are smoking in the park, what question does Harry ask?

3. Which of the men have been to visit Harry in jail?

4. On page 32, when Fitz's attitude toward Teena is changing, to what does he compare her way of walking?

5. Who comes to Bat's house looking for Harry?

(see the answer key)

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