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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 habit of repeatedly interrupting or talking over others.
(d) The scrapings of food left at the bottom of the pot.

2. What does Syl tell Pat to stop doing when they see a police car approaching?
(a) Shoving him.
(b) Crying.
(c) Hiding behind Bat.
(d) Leaning against the wall.

3. What does the narrator say makes it seem "as if a hoodoo on old Syl, or else the gods favouring Battersby" (79)?
(a) The nasty turn the weather takes while the group is looking for a hotel.
(b) The refusal of hotel after hotel to rent Syl a room.
(c) Pat's clear preference for Bat.
(d) Syl's repeated accidents and misfortunes that night.

4. Which of the friends sees Harry as he is being led away by the two men?
(a) Poor.
(b) Syl.
(c) Gallows.
(d) Alfy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which British monarch lived at Hamdon Court?

4. What time of year is it when the men first come up with the plan to buy a house?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Teena expect from Fitz during the excursion, and how does he get out of doing what she asks?

2. What function do the historical details offered during the Hamdon Court excursion serve?

3. What tactics does Syl use to try to get Pat to sleep with him that violate modern Western standards of consent?

4. What two opposing forces pull at Charlie Victor during the excursion to Hamdon Court?

5. Explain Matilda's "excursion" plan.

6. What evidence is there that Gallows understands Bat's intentions during the search for the hotel?

7. When the friends come to Bat's apartment to ask for their money back, what does the narrator mean when he says that Bat "shake the lists as if they was cheques" (60)?

8. What details does the narrator give about the excursion crowd's clothing and the things they are carrying, and what do these details imply?

9. When, outside the final hotel, Gallows asks whether Syl got Pat an Indian curry, what is he referring to, and what is Syl's reply?

10. How does Bat manipulate the situation so that he is the one who ends up with Pat?

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