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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the first of the friends to ask Bat for his money back?
(a) Nobby.
(b) Fitz.
(c) Alfy.
(d) Syl.

3. What is a char-a-banc?
(a) A double-decker bus used for sightseeing.
(b) A larger taxi-cab, usually shared between more than one set of passengers.
(c) A trolley car that has been converted to run without tracks.
(d) A vehicle with several rows of bench seats and no center aisle.

4. What does Nobby's landlady tell him he must feed his dog?
(a) Stew meat.
(b) Steak.
(c) Organ meats.
(d) Chicken.

5. Which quality of Syl's is Bat taking advantage of when he asks Syl for three guineas for the final hotel room?
(a) His greed.
(b) His chivalry.
(c) His generosity.
(d) His gullibility.

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

7. What does Bat say is wrong with the house that he supposedly went to see in Cricklewood?
(a) It is not on a bus line.
(b) It has dry rot.
(c) It is too large.
(d) It needs a new roof.

8. What is the name of Charlie Victor's date on the excursion?
(a) Maisie.
(b) Betty.
(c) Doris.
(d) Viola.

9. Who are the two men that wait for Harry outside the phone booth?
(a) Priests.
(b) Jean's customers.
(c) Police officers.
(d) Pimps.

10. Which phrase that Bat allegedly reads from the housing listings on page 61 is a clue that he might be lying?
(a) "Highly-residential houses."
(b) "All part of the country."
(c) "Our mortgage facilities."
(d) "Large selection."

11. What does the narrator say makes it seem "as if a hoodoo on old Syl, or else the gods favouring Battersby" (79)?
(a) Pat's clear preference for Bat.
(b) The refusal of hotel after hotel to rent Syl a room.
(c) Syl's repeated accidents and misfortunes that night.
(d) The nasty turn the weather takes while the group is looking for a hotel.

12. According to the narrator, why is the idea of the excursion so popular in Brixton?
(a) Hamdon Court is a famous site in Britain.
(b) People are eager to start the summer with a party.
(c) There is little else to do in Brixton.
(d) The summer heat is more bearable in the countryside.

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

14. On page 59, what does the narrator compare the summer to?
(a) The "planting season."
(b) The "mating season."
(c) The "marrying season."
(d) The "hunting season."

15. Which of the friends seems most affected by the temptations of summer?
(a) Syl.
(b) Nobby.
(c) Gallows.
(d) Alfy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Gallows hears about the Notting Hill house, what is the first thing he wants to know?

2. 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?

3. When the narrator says that Trinidadians love a "fete," what is he saying they love?

4. On the summer night when everyone gathers at Bat's apartment, how does Bat prepare for their visit?

5. According to Bat's reading of one housing listing, how much money will the friends need for a deposit on a house in Notting Hill?

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