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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bat get angry at Gallows for trying to do during the brief blackout in Bat's apartment building?
(a) Smoke Bat's cigarettes.
(b) Steal money.
(c) Touch Matilda.
(d) Drink Bat's rum.

2. When Battersby is daydreaming in the novel's opening, what does he wish for, besides a woman?
(a) Money, food, and rum.
(b) Food, rum, and marijuana.
(c) Fame, money, and respect.
(d) Power, money, and fame.

3. What do Harry and Battersby's sister have a playful argument about when they meet?
(a) Calypso music.
(b) Big Ben.
(c) England's monarchy.
(d) Aloo pie.

4. 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 ethos.
(b) Appeal to pathos.
(c) Appeal to authority.
(d) Appeal to logos.

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

6. Where does Gallows tell his friends that he might get a windfall of money from?
(a) Reparations for his imprisonment.
(b) The sale of his photographs.
(c) The death of a relative.
(d) The sale of his music.

7. What does the narrator say is "the biggest thing that ever happen to Gallows" (37)?
(a) The plan to buy a house.
(b) His run-in with the man he threatened to kill.
(c) The loss of his five-pound note.
(d) His accidental trip to England.

8. What word do the characters use that hints at the French colonial history of Trinidad?
(a) Ouf.
(b) Merci.
(c) Mince.
(d) Oui.

9. Why does Gallows go to the market one Saturday afternoon?
(a) To sell his photographs.
(b) To meet women.
(c) To try to get a job.
(d) To spy on his friends.

10. When Poor and Harry are smoking in the park, what question does Harry ask?
(a) He asks what Jean does for a living.
(b) He asks whether Poor will reconsider the housing scheme.
(c) He asks whether Poor thinks he can make it as a musician.
(d) He asks how much rent Bat pays for their apartment.

11. What condition does Battersby put on his agreement to take Harry as a roommate?
(a) He does not want Harry to be told what the rent is.
(b) He does not want Harry to bring his banjo.
(c) He wants Harry to agree not to speak to his sister.
(d) He wants Harry to agree to do all the cooking and cleaning.

12. Which of his friends warns Bat to not get married?
(a) Fitz.
(b) Poor.
(c) Nobby.
(d) Alfy.

13. What is de Nobriga's nickname?
(a) Deno.
(b) Bridge.
(c) Nobby.
(d) Iggy.

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

15. Who is it suggested was behind the assault on Eric Lopley?
(a) The Rent Tribunal.
(b) His landlords.
(c) His employers.
(d) The police.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Harry moves in, how does Bat's attitude about the apartment change?

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

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?

4. What does Fitz claim he did when a former girlfriend suggested they get married?

5. When Matilda asks Jean about marrying Harry, what is Jean's first objection to Harry?

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