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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator compare the mens' appetites for women to?
(a) Hyenas.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Bulls.
(d) Lions.

2. 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) Missing his family in Montego Bay.
(d) Being a famous musician.

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

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

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

6. What does Harry do to make himself feel better after his conversation with Jean near the park?
(a) He goes to the apartment and drinks the last of Bat's rum.
(b) He buys and smokes a pack of expensive cigarettes.
(c) He picks up an English sex worker and takes her home.
(d) He takes out one of Poor's joints and smokes it.

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

8. When Gallows looks at the pavement of Bayswater Road, what does it make him wonder about London?
(a) He wonders why the city's rich people are so careless with trash.
(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 there are not more accidents on the city's terrible roads.

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

10. When Bat is trying to seduce Matilda in his apartment after she suggests the excursion, besides flattering her, what else does he tell her?
(a) He wants to marry a Black woman.
(b) Her religious scruples are holding her back.
(c) Her English boyfriend will never marry her.
(d) He will soon be rich.

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

12. After they ask for it back, where does Bat tell the men the money they gave him is, right now?
(a) Hidden in his mattress.
(b) In Jean's apartment somewhere.
(c) Deposited with a real estate company.
(d) Invested in the excursion.

13. After Nobby gets rid of his dog, what does he tell his landlady happened to it?
(a) It was poisoned.
(b) It fell from his balcony.
(c) It ran away because the door was open.
(d) It died in surgery.

14. When the group makes it to Westbourne Grove, whom does Bat tell Syl to ask about a hotel room?
(a) A man selling fruit at a stall.
(b) The doormen outside an apartment building.
(c) A group of taxi drivers.
(d) A newspaper delivery boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are many people in the West Indian community upset with Poor?

2. 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?

3. What does Gallows take from a pile of trash when he, Syl, Pat, and Bat are looking for a hotel room?

4. 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?

5. What suggestion does Bat make after Syl accuses Bat of deliberately taking him to an area where the hotels will refuse him?

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