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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. Where does Bat first suggest Syl look for a hotel room?
(a) Bayswater.
(b) Brixton.
(c) Hackney.
(d) Newham.

2. When, after lunch, the women leave the group for another tour, why does Poor tag along after them?
(a) He wants Teena to tell the men to stop ignoring him.
(b) He wants to borrow money from Jean.
(c) He wants to tell Matilda some gossip about Bat.
(d) He is hoping to seduce Maisie.

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

4. When Harry and Jean go out into the hallway together, he decides to "make hay while the match was shining" (26). What does the expression "make hay" mean?
(a) To get something done when the opportunity presents itself.
(b) To sweet-talk someone and try to get them interested in you.
(c) To pursue a point by asking questions or interrogating someone.
(d) To smoke--either a cigarette or marijuana.

5. When the men indicate that they do not trust Battersby to hold the group's money, who volunteers to be the group's treasurer?
(a) Jean.
(b) Fitzwilliams.
(c) Harry.
(d) Poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Battersby and Harry go out to get when Battersby's friends gather at his apartment?

2. What does Harry do to make himself feel better after his conversation with Jean near the park?

3. 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?

4. What is Nobby's landlady's name?

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

(see the answer key)

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