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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the friends urges the others to give Bat a chance to explain what is happening with the housing plan?
(a) Gallows.
(b) Poor.
(c) Nobby.
(d) Alfy.

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

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

4. In his discussion of Syl's behavior with women, what does the narrator compare women to?
(a) Flowers being tended by Syl.
(b) Butterflies being captured by Syl.
(c) Bottles of rum being drunk by Syl.
(d) Whales being hunted by Syl.

5. When Gallows hears about the Notting Hill house, what is the first thing he wants to know?
(a) What its address is.
(b) Whether the owners will sell to Blacks.
(c) How long they have to come up with a deposit.
(d) Whether it has a basement.

6. What is implied by Pat looking around the apartment "as if she seeing it for the first time" before she announces "I can't sleep here" (76)?
(a) Pat is afraid of being alone with three men.
(b) The apartment is very run down.
(c) The apartment is too far away from Pat's job.
(d) Pat is prejudiced against Blacks.

7. From the narrator's explanation of how dogs are treated in the West Indies, what is it reasonable to conclude?
(a) He thinks that the English spoil their dogs.
(b) He wishes that he had a dog of his own.
(c) He thinks that West Indians treat dogs more like family members than the English do.
(d) He is embarrassed about how West Indians treat animals.

8. When Harry is wandering through Piccadilly Circus, still high from smoking with Poor, what is he thinking about?
(a) Being a famous musician.
(b) Owning his own house.
(c) Missing his family in Montego Bay.
(d) Marrying Jean.

9. How does Jean surprise Gallows when he runs into her near the park where she is looking for clients?
(a) She tells him she is thinking of marrying Harry.
(b) She asks him to drop out of the housing plan.
(c) She gives him two shillings and six pence.
(d) She offers to set him up with a friend of hers.

10. When Pat first announces that she has no intention of sharing a hotel room with Syl, what does Bat say in response?
(a) Pat can come back to his apartment to spend the night.
(b) He will stay with her and Syl to make sure nothing happens.
(c) Syl will sleep on the floor of the hotel room.
(d) They should wait until they get to where they are going and then make a decision.

11. What is Syl's solution to Nobby's unwilling dog ownership?
(a) He gives the dog to Fitz for his wife, Teena.
(b) He leaves the dog on the train to Greenwich.
(c) He takes the dog and dumps it in Croyden.
(d) He sells the dog to one of his colleagues.

12. When Syl is in the first hotel asking for a room, what does Bat object to?
(a) He does not like the way that Syl is manipulating Pat.
(b) He thinks that this hotel is unlikely to impress Pat.
(c) He does not like to see Pat standing alone outside the hotel.
(d) He thinks that Syl should have sent Pat into the hotel.

13. Why are many people in the West Indian community upset with Poor?
(a) Because of what happened to Harry.
(b) Because Poor is trying to disrupt the excursion.
(c) Because Poor acts as if he is better than other West Indians.
(d) Because Poor is a drug dealer.

14. What is Nobby's landlady's name?
(a) Mrs. Quinn.
(b) Mrs. Little.
(c) Mrs. Feltin.
(d) Mrs. Tucker.

15. When Bat shoos the men out of his apartment so that he and Syl can be alone with Pat, what does Gallows stay behind for?
(a) To talk about the housing plan.
(b) To smoke marijuana.
(c) To talk about Harry Banjo.
(d) To drink sherry.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bat tells Syl that a hotel room in the first area they go to is likely to cost two guineas or more, what does the narrator comment about Bat's motives?

2. What does Nobby tell his landlady he has named the dog?

3. Which of the friends sees Harry as he is being led away by the two men?

4. What is a char-a-banc?

5. Why is Nobby so anxious to make sure his landlady likes him?

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