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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) "Our mortgage facilities."
(c) "All part of the country."
(d) "Large selection."

3. Which British monarch lived at Hamdon Court?
(a) Edward II.
(b) Richard III.
(c) Richard I.
(d) Henry VIII.

4. 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.

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

6. 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 needs a new roof.
(c) It is too large.
(d) It has dry rot.

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

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

9. 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) The habit of repeatedly interrupting or talking over others.
(c) A person who is always the target of a group's humor.
(d) A payment to be allowed to enter a game.

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

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

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

13. Where does Bat first suggest Syl look for a hotel room?
(a) Hackney.
(b) Newham.
(c) Bayswater.
(d) Brixton.

14. Why does Gallows suggest that Pat be the one to go in and ask for a hotel room?
(a) He thinks that the hotel is unlikely to rent to Syl.
(b) He thinks Pat would have more control if the room were in her name.
(c) He suspects that Bat has some plan to take Pat from Syl.
(d) He wants the three men to leave her while she is inside asking for a room.

15. 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) His friends were angry, before, but they have calmed down.
(b) His other friends are being foolish to ask for their money back.
(c) The friends were unwise to trust Bat in the first place.
(d) The friends might feel differently if Bat has actually made some progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Harry go into the phone booth?

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

3. After Nobby gets rid of his dog, what does he tell his landlady happened to it?

4. On page 59, what does the narrator compare the summer to?

5. 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?

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