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

2. 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 Syl should have sent Pat into the hotel.
(c) He thinks that this hotel is unlikely to impress Pat.
(d) He does not like the way that Syl is manipulating Pat.

3. Why does Harry go into the phone booth?
(a) To call a hotel.
(b) To call the police.
(c) To call Poor.
(d) To call his agent.

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

5. What does Gallows toss to Syl as he leaves him outside the final hotel?
(a) A piece of wood.
(b) A bus token.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) A roll of film.

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

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

8. 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 tells him she is thinking of marrying Harry.
(c) She asks him to drop out of the housing plan.
(d) She offers to set him up with a friend of hers.

9. What does the narrator say the West Indian term "buttards" means (92)?
(a) A payment to be allowed to enter a game.
(b) A person who is always the target of a group's humor.
(c) The scrapings of food left at the bottom of the pot.
(d) The habit of repeatedly interrupting or talking over others.

10. What does Nobby tell his landlady he has named the dog?
(a) Pumpkin.
(b) Flossie.
(c) Tiger.
(d) Sarah.

11. How does Jean react when Gallows tells her about the legal danger Poor has placed Harry in?
(a) She mocks Harry's gullibility.
(b) She feigns disinterest.
(c) She curses Poor.
(d) She offers to help find Harry.

12. 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) The friends might feel differently if Bat has actually made some progress.
(c) His other friends are being foolish to ask for their money back.
(d) The friends were unwise to trust Bat in the first place.

13. 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?
(a) 800 pounds.
(b) 300 pounds.
(c) 100 pounds.
(d) 500 pounds.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In his discussion of Syl's behavior with women, what does the narrator compare women to?

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

4. What does Poor offer his friends as a way to get back in their good graces?

5. Which phrase that Bat allegedly reads from the housing listings on page 61 is a clue that he might be lying?

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