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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Harry, Fitz, and Bat.
(b) Bat, Gallows, and Harry.
(c) Gallows, Harry, and Ftiz.
(d) Harry, Bat, and Syl.

2. What idea about the second hotel is supported by the details of the patrons' clothing?
(a) The hotel is an exclusive one.
(b) The hotel is unlikely to rent to a Black customer.
(c) The hotel is unlikely to rent to an unmarried man and woman.
(d) The hotel is frequented by sex workers.

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

4. 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?
(a) "Optimistic."
(b) "Aristocratic."
(c) "Hypnotic."
(d) "Diplomatic."

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?
(a) He wants to marry a Black woman.
(b) Her English boyfriend will never marry her.
(c) He will soon be rich.
(d) Her religious scruples are holding her back.

6. When Bat tells his friends that they are "stupid," and Alfy agrees that this is true "in the past tense," what is Alfy implying (60)?
(a) The friends might feel differently if Bat has actually made some progress.
(b) The friends were unwise to trust Bat in the first place.
(c) His other friends are being foolish to ask for their money back.
(d) His friends were angry, before, but they have calmed down.

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 needs a new roof.
(d) It is too large.

8. What qualifies Bat to run the excursion to Hamdon Court?
(a) Nothing.
(b) He has previously run an excursion to Brighton.
(c) He has a degree in history.
(d) He has run many excursions in Trinidad.

9. 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 why the city's rich people are so careless with trash.
(c) He wonders whether the city's streets are really paved with gold.
(d) He wonders how the city chooses pavement companies.

10. 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 an all-night restaurant in Piccadilly Circus and then Pat can catch a morning train to work.
(b) They can go back to the apartment, and Bat will stay upstairs with his sister and Matilda while Pat and Syl sleep downstairs.
(c) They can go to Hyde Park and ask his sister which hotels will rent rooms to Black patrons.
(d) They can go to Tottenham Court Road and ask his three friends from Barbados to let Pat and Syl stay there.

11. Who arrives at the lunch area in a rowboat?
(a) Syl.
(b) Gallows.
(c) Poor.
(d) Charlie.

12. In Westbourne Grove, when Pat refuses to let Syl touch her, what does Syl threaten to do?
(a) Abandon her.
(b) Take her back to Bat's apartment.
(c) Make her pay for her own hotel.
(d) Hit her.

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

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 performing.
(c) He is on a date.
(d) He is in jail.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From the narrator's explanation of how dogs are treated in the West Indies, what is it reasonable to conclude?

3. When Syl is in the first hotel asking for a room, what does Bat object to?

4. When the group makes it to Westbourne Grove, whom does Bat tell Syl to ask about a hotel room?

5. What is Nobby's landlady's name?

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