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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. When Fitz tells Teena that the men will soon be having a meeting to discuss the housing situation, what does Teena tell Fitz?
(a) He will not be going.
(b) They are dropping out of the plan.
(c) It will end like all the others.
(d) He has to ask Bat to prove he still has their money.

2. As Poor approaches his friends in the market, what detail of his appearance does the narrator mention?
(a) He walks with a barely noticeable limp.
(b) He has a dimple on his left cheek, but not his right.
(c) He has a habit of looking at the ground as he walks.
(d) He always has his hands in his pockets.

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

4. What does Harry plan to do to make "some big money" (15)?
(a) Write home to his parents.
(b) Get a construction job.
(c) Sell tapes of his music.
(d) Rob a store.

5. When Bat calls Teena "macoumere," what is it likely from context that means by the remark?
(a) She is acting like she is his mother.
(b) She is someone the group respects as a leader.
(c) She will someday be his child's godmother.
(d) She is not fulfilling her role as a woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Each time the men go by Fitz and Teena's house, what do they find Fitz doing?

2. What word do the male characters often use to refer to a woman?

3. Which British monarch lived at Hamdon Court?

4. 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?

5. What is Battersby's sister irritated about when she comes downstairs to where Battersby's friends have gathered?

(see the answer key)

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