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

2. 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) 300 pounds.
(b) 100 pounds.
(c) 500 pounds.
(d) 800 pounds.

3. 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 performing.
(d) He is on a date.

4. 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?
(a) To smoke marijuana.
(b) To drink sherry.
(c) To talk about the housing plan.
(d) To talk about Harry Banjo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry is wandering through Piccadilly Circus, still high from smoking with Poor, what is he thinking about?

2. When Bat finally suggests that they go try the hotels around Paddington Station, because he is "getting tired with all this preliminary," what does the narrator's use of the word "preliminary" suggest (80)?

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

4. 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)?

5. What is a char-a-banc?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Matilda's "excursion" plan.

2. What does Syl spend most of his free time doing in the summer, and why does it seem to be a wasted effort?

3. What story about finding money did Alfy once tell Gallows?

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

5. When the friends come to Bat's apartment to ask for their money back, how does Bat use their feelings for Harry to manipulate them?

6. How did Nobby end up with a dog?

7. What details does the narrator give that demonstrate how eager people are to go on the excursion?

8. 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?

9. Who are the Legion of Mary sisters, and what do they want from Jean?

10. 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)?

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