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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Gallows looks at the pavement of Bayswater Road, what does it make him wonder about London?
(a) He wonders why there are not more accidents on the city's terrible roads.
(b) He wonders whether the city's streets are really paved with gold.
(c) He wonders how the city chooses pavement companies.
(d) He wonders why the city's rich people are so careless with trash.

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

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

4. What does the narrator compare Pat to when she goes into the final hotel with Bat?
(a) A lemming.
(b) A pawn.
(c) A lamb.
(d) A child.

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

6. Of the friends who have agreed to the housing plan, which three does the narrator say are at least somewhat serious about getting a house?
(a) Bat, Gallows, and Harry.
(b) Harry, Bat, and Syl.
(c) Gallows, Harry, and Ftiz.
(d) Harry, Fitz, and Bat.

7. What suggestion does Bat make after Syl accuses Bat of deliberately taking him to an area where the hotels will refuse him?
(a) They can go to Hyde Park and ask his sister which hotels will rent rooms to Black patrons.
(b) They can go to Tottenham Court Road and ask his three friends from Barbados to let Pat and Syl stay there.
(c) They can go to an all-night restaurant in Piccadilly Circus and then Pat can catch a morning train to work.
(d) They can go back to the apartment, and Bat will stay upstairs with his sister and Matilda while Pat and Syl sleep downstairs.

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

9. What does Alfy draw and ask Syl to identify when the friends are standing around talking by Marble Arch?
(a) The alphabet.
(b) A marijuana plant.
(c) Female genitalia.
(d) A map of Port of Spain.

10. 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) The apartment is very run down.
(b) The apartment is too far away from Pat's job.
(c) Pat is afraid of being alone with three men.
(d) Pat is prejudiced against Blacks.

11. What does Gallows take from a pile of trash when he, Syl, Pat, and Bat are looking for a hotel room?
(a) A bottle of rum.
(b) A piece of wood.
(c) A five-pound note.
(d) An old camera.

12. Why is Nobby so anxious to make sure his landlady likes him?
(a) He is several weeks behind in his rend payments.
(b) The landlady reminds him of his mother, back in Trinidad.
(c) He is interested in her daughter.
(d) He had a hard time finding a place to live and does not want to have to look again.

13. Where is Pat from?
(a) Ireland.
(b) England.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Wales.

14. When the group of friends gather one summer night at Bat's apartment, why is Harry absent?
(a) He is visiting Jamaica.
(b) He is on a date.
(c) He is performing.
(d) He is in jail.

15. What is Syl's constant cross-kissing meant to show about him?
(a) He is superstitious and nervous.
(b) He is very religious.
(c) He is trying to assimilate.
(d) He is trying to impress Pat.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Jean react when Gallows tells her about the legal danger Poor has placed Harry in?

3. After they ask for it back, where does Bat tell the men the money they gave him is, right now?

4. When Harry is wandering through Piccadilly Circus, still high from smoking with Poor, what is he thinking about?

5. When Bat is trying to seduce Matilda in his apartment after she suggests the excursion, besides flattering her, what else does he tell her?

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